Bunyavirales Infections
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 803
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The order Bunyavirales is one of the largest groups of RNA viruses encompassing major pathogens that infect humans, animals, and invertebrates (i.e., plants and insects). Because of their segmented genomes, members of the Bunyavirales are capable of a rapid recombination, which increases the risk that quasispecies can cause new outbreaks. Bunyaviruses that infect mammals are transmitted by vectors such as hematophagous arthropods (i.e., mosquitoes, midges, flies, and ticks) and various rodent species. In contrast, little is known about human-to-human transmission, except for phlebovirus infections. The viruses of the order Bunyavirales may cause few symptoms, but others may cause hemorrhagic fever, systemic infections, and even death in humans, and intrauterine infections in ruminants may result in various fetal pathologies such as births of malformed offspring and abortions, in addition to subclinical infections in adults.
In this Special Issue, we encourage researchers to submit articles addressing the viral hemorrhagic diseases caused by Bunyavirales, the pathogenesis of bunyavirus infections in veterinary medicine, epidemiological studies, virus–host and virus–vector interactions, immunity, vaccine candidates and their efficacy and effectiveness, and diagnostic tools.
Prof. Dr. Aykut Özkul
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bunyavirales
- RNA viruses
- bunyavirus
- virus–vector interactions
- immunity
