Emerging Viral Infections in the Respiratory Tract
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 35
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pediatrics; hematology; oncology; infectious disease; immunodeficiency; hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the seriousness of the impact of emerging respiratory virus infections. Accidental mutations of existing viruses can also result in a global health crisis, as can emerging infectious diseases. With the globalization of the world, there will continue to be concerns about and threats of emerging infectious diseases in localized regions becoming pandemics in a short period of time. A multifaceted research system is required to not only share epidemiological and clinical information on respiratory viral infections, but also to elucidate their pathogenesis and develop new treatments as well as vaccines. mRNA vaccines, which rapidly became clinically available against COVID-19, is a good example. With the vast and detailed research results obtained from the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that the findings and insights gained from reviewing existing respiratory virus infections from new perspectives will also be very important for future countermeasures. From this perspective, we have planned for this project to solicit a wide range of clinical, epidemiological, and immunological studies on respiratory viral infections as well as basic studies on viruses, in the hope that they will contribute to the future development of research in this field.
Prof. Dr. Masayuki Nagasawa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- respiratory virus
- pandemic
- mutation
- developmental immunology
- vaccine
- epidemiology
- emerging infection
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