Special Issue "Newly Identified Respiratory Viruses"

Guest Editor
Dr. Ian M. Mackay
Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases (QPID) Laboratory, Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre (SASVRC), Royal Children's Hospital, Herston Road, Queensland 4029, Australia
Website: http://www.sasvrc.qld.gov.au/
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Phone: +61 7 3636 1619
Fax: +61 7 3636 1401
Interests: human respiratory viruses; human enteroviruses; human rhinoviruses; virus discovery; paediatric virology; diagnostic PCR

Dear Colleagues,

Viruses will be publishing a special issue addressing any and all aspects of research into the "Newly Identified Respiratory Viruses". Respiratory NIVs include HMPV, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1, HBoV and the divergent HRVs to name a few. Topics include, but are not limited to, laboratory diagnosis, clinical impact, epidemiology, immunology, phylogeny, metagenomic analyses, taxonomy and health economics analyses.

Dr. Ian M. Mackay
Guest Editor

Submission Information

All papers should be submitted to viruses@mdpi.com. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special issue website.

Submitted papers should not have been published nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Viruses is a new international, peer-reviewed, quarterly open access journal published by MDPI.

Article Processing Charges (APC) for publication in this Open Access journal are waived for well-prepared manuscripts submitted by 30 June 2010. English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.

• respiratory viruses
• virology
• virus discovery
• laboratory diagnosis
• clinical impact
• epidemiology
• immunology
• phylogeny
• metagenomic analyses
• taxonomy
• health economics