Control of Viral Infections: Pathogenesis, Immunity, Vaccines and Antivirals

Dear Colleagues,

Viruses are extreme intracellular parasites that establish complex relationships with their hosts. Thus, co-evolution exists between the pathogenic mechanisms that viruses exert on the host and the consequent response of the immune system that develops to combat them. Our current life system, globalization, and climate change accelerate and favor its dispersion, giving rise to (re)-emergencies and epidemic outbreaks, often with new associated pathogenic mechanisms, which, as we have seen recently, can have devastating effects on society.

The control of viruses is based, among other aspects, on prevention and treatment; therefore, this Special Issue aims to gather new knowledge on the mechanisms of pathogenesis and antiviral immunity, together with novel approaches to the development of vaccines and antiviral therapies.

New technologies, including cutting-edge technologies such as omics, are enabling more rational and rapid approaches and advancements in the development of effective vaccines and antivirals, as well as in the understanding of these pathogens, and should be the starting point of current research.

Thus, studies describing new knowledge of these pathogens, such as mechanisms of virulence and viral escape from immune response, pathogenesis, and host immunity; the development of novel and effective vaccines; and new antiviral treatments are welcome.

Dr. Nereida Jiménez de Oya
Guest Editor

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