Advance in Influenza A Virus
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 40900
Special Issue Editor
Interests: influenza virus; virus-host interaction; antivirals; hemagglutinin; RNA structure
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Dear Colleagues,
The influenza A virus (IVA) has been present for centuries, with remedies such as the influenza vaccine and specific anti-influenza treatment (i.e., amantadine, oseltamivir) having been around for nearly a century or for several years, respectively. Nevertheless, IAV continues to cause illness every 6 seconds and a death every 2 minutes today. To combat influenza, we need to understand virus biology at the cellular and organism level and combine this knowledge with human immunology, physiology and genetic, as well as epidemiological data, basic knowledge on the chemistry of antivirals, as well as development and formulation of vaccines.
However, due to the amazing IAV evolution rate, the emergence of new IAV strains, as well as IAV adaptation to new hosts and environments, we need to reanalyze and confirm our findings. Even though, through many years on the IAV research, we have found solutions to many problems, many questions still remain unanswered, and even more questions not even asked.
In this Special Issue of Pathogens, we invite you to submit research articles, reviews or short communications focused on the recent advances in IAV biology, including cell entry, replication, virus budding and release, IAV genetics and structure, as well as virus–host interaction, development of new antivirals and vaccines, and finally, IAV diagnostics and epidemiology.
Dr. Pawel Zmora
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- influenza A virus
- viral life cycle
- virus-host interaction
- antivirals
- vaccine
- epidemiology
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