10th Anniversary of Pathogens—Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Pathogens in a Pandemic World

Dear Colleagues,

The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of the journal Pathogens. We are delighted and proud to celebrate with a series of Special Issues and events. We would like to express our sincerest thanks to our innumerable readers, authors, anonymous peer reviewers, editors, and all others who have worked in some way for the journal and made substantial contributions over the years. Reaching this landmark would not have been possible without your support.

To mark this important milestone, we have launched a dedicated Special Issue entitled “10th Anniversary of Pathogens—Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Pathogens in a Pandemic World”, which is now open for submissions.

We have been living in the new era of a pandemic world, and we would like to embrace and represent the research into many of these viral diseases that can lead to the occurrence of pandemics. Emerging viral diseases are those that have not been previously recognized within a particular geography or population, many of which are zoonoses and frequently involve arthropod vectors. In these cases, the emergence or re-emergence of these pathogens may be due to the increased expansion of humans into previously austere wilderness regions, or the changes in climate that have expanded the range of many pathogen vectors. In addition to the current coronavirus pandemic, other examples of emerging and re-emerging diseases include major outbreaks of Ebola virus, MERS virus, the original SARS virus as well as Zika virus, Hendra and Nipah viruses, hantaviruses, West Nile virus, and avian influenza viruses, among others. Many of these diseases are caused by viral pathogens that are studied under increased levels of containment. This Special Issue will consider any research article that has focused on emerging or re-emerging viral pathogens, from basic research on host-pathogen interactions and immune responses to viral pathogens to possible application, i.e., potential treatments or vaccines.

Dr. Anna Honko
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Pathogens is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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