SARS-CoV-2 Variants Research and Vaccines
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Vaccines and Therapeutic Developments".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 14067
Special Issue Editors
Interests: COVID-19 therapeutics; natural therapies; liver cancer and molecular biomarkers for COVID-19 and liver cancer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the span of more than two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed the evolution of the virus through different variants which have affected global communities in many different ways to the original virus. These variants have also caused different symptoms and differences in the make-up of the infected individuals. In addition to breakthroughs in therapeutic and preventive medicine driven by the pandemic, practices have had to adapt to new ways of medicine delivery, and researchers have toiled to chronicle the layers of social, economic, and political consequences of the pandemic.
As we await the endemicity of COVID-19, waves of new variants are producing new symptoms and making multiple treatments, which were thought to be lifesaving in their inception, obsolete. Clinical trials must anticipate the future landscape that is likely to exist when they are able to be implemented in an ever-changing patient profile and attitude towards research.
This Special Issue, which is dedicated to COVID-19 two years on, will consider submissions regarding topics such as prognostic indicators of COVID-19 infections, the global heterogeneity of patients affected by local variants of the SARS-CoV2 virus, the evolving approaches to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention (including masks and vaccines), along with future directions in these respective themes.
Areas of specific interest include:
- The natural course of COVID-19 infection along with outcome-based tools to classify the severity of infections.
- Prognostic indicators of the progression of mild–moderate COVID-19 infection to severe infection and death.
- Therapeutic approaches to COVID-19 infection based on its severity, including outpatient versus inpatient settings.
- Prognostic indicators of morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 infection.
- Definition and pathogenesis of long COVID symptoms post COVID-19 infection.
- COVID-19 severity and mortality rates based on ethnicity, age, gender, socio-economic status, and geographic location.
- COVID-19 variants and their responses to vaccines.
- The impact and longevity of the immunogenic response of vaccines in various patient populations.
This Special Issue reflects the unprecedented unity of researchers that has been witnessed globally in the face of a common threat to humanity and aims to feature the brightest discoveries in this field.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed O. Kaseb
Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- COVID-19 infection
- COVID antiviral
- SARS antigen test
- SARS RT-PCR
- COVID-19 treatment
- vaccination
- long COVID
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