Basic Virological Aspects of SARS-CoV-2
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2673
Special Issue Editors
Interests: respiratory viruses; virology; epidemiology; vaccines; viral evolution
Interests: respiratory viruses; virology; epidemiology; HPV; CMV
2. Virology, Veterinary Sciences Division, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast BT4 3SD, UK
Interests: pathogenic mechanisms of RNA viruses (morbilliviruses, respiratory syncytial virus, coronavirus); recombinant vaccine design; genetic markers of virus susceptibility and assessment in small/large animal models; paramyxoviruses; pathogenic mechanisms of measles virus; morbilliviruses; respiratory syncytial virus; coronavirus; vaccine design; vaccination
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that has completely changed our world in the three years since it first emerged. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic generated a new challenge to obtain high-quality information in a short period of time. This new information required about SARS-CoV-2 needed to be focused on understanding the physiopathology of the COVID-19 disease, identifying biomarkers, and designing a vaccine and treatments. The scope of this Special Issue is to gather information about the basic virology aspects of SARS-CoV-2 and their impact on the design of vaccines and/or drugs. Further, the basic virology aspect can be focused on to understand the physiopathology of COVID-19 disease.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS viruses had a relative slow evolution rate. However, globalization, unequal strategies to control or mitigate the pandemic around the world, and the generation of several vaccines increased the evolution rate. This evolution, centered in the scape of the immune system, had a great impact on the persistence of the pandemic and a critical decrease in vaccines’ effectiveness. Therefore, understanding the basic virological aspect of this virus through high-quality information will allow us to generate better strategies against this virus.
Dr. Andreu Comas-Garcia
Dr. Sofía Bernal-Silva
Prof. Dr. S. Louise Cosby
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SARS-CoV-2
- molecular virology
- vaccines
- evolution
- molecular mechanism
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