Special Issue "West Nile Virus"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Michael S. Diamond
Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology Washington University School of Medicine Co-Director, Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research 660 S Euclid Avenue St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Website: http://immunobiology.wustl.edu/diamond-michael.asp
E-Mail: diamond@borcim.wustl.edu
Phone: +1 314 362 2842

Guest Editor
Dr. Ted C. Pierson
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, 33 North Drive, Building 33, Room 2E19A.2, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Website: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/labsandresources/labs/aboutlabs/lvd/viralpathogenesissection/Pages/default.aspx
E-Mail: piersontc@niaid.nih.gov
Phone: +1 301 451 7977
Fax: +1 301 451 7978

Dear Colleagues,

West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging mosquito-transmitted zoonotic pathogen that continues to spread throughout regions of the New World, Europe, Africa, and parts of the Middle East. Over the last decade, it has caused millions of human infections with outcomes ranging from sub-clinical illness, to a self-limiting febrile syndrome or lethal neuroinvasive disease. WNV poses a significant global public health risk and thus, has triggered intensive research into many areas related to WNV pathogenesis and disease. Among those targeted for exploration and discussion in this Special Edition are the epidemiology and clinical presentation of WNV disease, the virus-vector interface, vector ecology, WNV evolution and adaptation, the protective mammalian host immune response, mechanisms of virus immune evasion, and strategies for developing effective prophylaxis and treatments.

Prof. Dr. Michael S. Diamond
Dr. Ted C. Pierson
Guest Editors

Related issue on "West Nile Virus" in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/west_nile_virus

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• flavivirus
• pathogenesis
• encephalitis
• meningitis
• humoral immunity
• cellular immunity
• neutralization
• vaccine
• therapeutics
• mosquito
• neuron
• dendritic cells
• genetics
• neurotropism
• neuronal injury