Conquering Antiviral Drug Resistance via Development of Novel Antivirals and New Testing Methods for Drug Resistance: From Bench to Bedside
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hepatitis viruses; poxviruses; coronaviruses; arboviruses; enterovirus; influenza; clinical and diagnostic virology; virus-host interactions; antiviral development
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Interests: structure-based drug design, high-throughput screening, medicinal chemistry, electrophysiology, peptide chemistry, biophysics, virology
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Interests: clinical virology, molecular testing, antiviral resistance testing, HIV drug resistance testing, automation, molecular assay development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Acute and chronic viral infections, e.g., influenza, COVID-19, enteroviruses, viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and Mpox, affect millions of people worldwide and constitute a significant global public health threat. While antivirals against medically important viruses are developed and marketed, antiviral resistance has become an important medical and public health issue due to the limited research or application of antiviral resistance testing and gaps in novel antiviral development. On one hand, similar to antibiotic resistance and its susceptibility testing with global attention, antiviral drug resistance testing warrants more research and development for public health surveillance and medical purposes. While viral load assays have some utility to monitor clinical treatment response and detect “clinical resistance” in response to antiviral treatment, more sensitive and faster molecular testing for antiviral drug resistance mutations may be a valuable tool for the screening and detection of “genotypic resistance” to predict “clinical resistance”. On the other hand, novel antiviral development is an essential and ultimate approach to treat refractory, drug-resistant viral infections. There has recently been remarkable progress in the development of novel antivirals and testing methods for antiviral drug resistance. This Special Issue aims to provide an update on the recent research progress in antiviral drug resistance and its testing as well as novel antiviral development from the perspectives of both basic and clinical/translational research and applications, which will inform the improvement in drug development, rapid diagnosis, and salvage therapy of refractory, drug-resistant viral infections.
Dr. Benjamin Liu
Dr. Jun Wang
Dr. David Hillyard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antivirals
- viral hepatitis
- HIV
- Mpox
- influenza
- enterovirus
- chronic viral infections
- acute viral infections
- diagnosis
- antiviral drug resistance
- antiviral drug mutations
- antiviral drug development
- viral evolution
- treatment
