Post COVID-19 Immunological Era

Dear Colleagues,

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has changed all attributes of immunological research. This area concerns inflammatory diseases, infectious diseases, cancer, pulmonary diseases, vascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases, along with all immunopathologies, including effects on the immune and hematopoietic systems. Early studies have reported the immune dysregulation caused by COVID-19 in terms of changes in cellular and humoral immune responses, and its possible involvement in regulating or worsening the immune regulatory environment. In some of patients, hyperimmune activation leads to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and long-term COVID-19 in children and adults. Continuous exposure to long-COVID-19 virus fragments in the body can act as a superantigen that may cause autoimmune symptoms. Infection-fighting cytokines mistakenly attack the body’s organs (overactivation).

We welcome research papers on immune system involvement in relation to COVID-19 including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Long COVID and immune response;
• Long COVID treatment;
• Post-COVID-19 immune pathology;
• Immune therapies and COVID-19;
• COVID-19 and inflammatory diseases;
• COVID-19 and immune-mediated disorders;
• Post-COVID-19 infection and autoimmunity.

Dr. Lalit Batra
Dr. Namdev S. Togre
Dr. Nitin P. Amdare
Dr. Dharmender Kumar
Guest Editors

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