Viruses | Editor’s Choice Articles Published in 2024–2025

1. “Targeting Latent HIV Reservoirs: Effectiveness of Combination Therapy with HDAC and PARP Inhibitors”
by Hasset Tibebe, Dacia Marquez, Aidan McGraw, Sophia Gagliardi, Cailyn Sullivan, Grace Hillmer, Kedhar Narayan, Coco Izumi, Adleigh Keating and Taisuke Izumi
Viruses 2025, 17(3), 400; https://doi.org/10.3390/v17030400
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/3/400

2. “The In Situ Structure of T-Series T1 Reveals a Conserved Lambda-Like Tail Tip”
by Yuan Chen, Hao Xiao, Junquan Zhou, Zeng Peng, Yuning Peng, Jingdong Song, Jing Zheng and Hongrong Liu
Viruses 2025, 17(3), 351; https://doi.org/10.3390/v17030351
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/3/351

3. “Impacts of Antiretroviral Therapy on the Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Health of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Cats”
by Laura Bashor, Jennifer E. Rawlinson, Christopher P. Kozakiewicz, Elisa Behzadi, Craig Miller, Jeffrey Kim, Megan Cierzan, Mary Nehring, Scott Carver, Zaid Abdo et al.
Viruses 2025, 17(2), 257; https://doi.org/10.3390/v17020257
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/2/257

4. “Repurposing Drugs for Synergistic Combination Therapies to Counteract Monkeypox Virus Tecovirimat Resistance”
by Haydar Witwit, Beatrice Cubitt, Roaa Khafaji, Esteban M. Castro, Miguel Goicoechea, Maria M. Lorenzo, Rafael Blasco, Luis Martinez-Sobrido and Juan C. de la Torre
Viruses 2025, 17(1), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/v17010092
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17/1/92

5. “The Transcriptional Program of Staphylococcus aureus Phage K Is Affected by a Host rpoC Mutation That Confers Phage K Resistance”
by Rohit Kongari, Melissa D. Ray, Susan M. Lehman, Roger D. Plaut, Deborah M. Hinton and Scott Stibitz
Viruses 2024, 16(11), 1773; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16111773
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/11/1773

6. “Multiplex Microscopy Assay for Assessment of Therapeutic and Serum Antibodies against Emerging Pathogens”
by Nuno Sartingen, Vanessa Stürmer, Matthias Kaltenböck, Thorsten G. Müller, Paul Schnitzler, Anna Kreshuk, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Uta Merle, Frauke Mücksch, Barbara Müller et al.
Viruses 2024, 16(9), 1473; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16091473
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/9/1473

7. “Translation of Overlapping Open Reading Frames Promoted by Type 2 IRESs in Avian Calicivirus Genomes”
by Yani Arhab, Tatyana V. Pestova and Christopher U. T. Hellen
Viruses 2024, 16(9), 1413; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16091413
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/9/1413

8. “Resistance of the CRISPR-Cas13a Gene-Editing System to Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid Infection in Tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana”
by Ying Wei Khoo, Qingsong Wang, Shangwu Liu, Binhui Zhan, Tengfei Xu, Wenxia Lv, Guangjing Liu, Shifang Li and Zhixiang Zhang
Viruses 2024, 16(9), 1401; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16091401
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/9/1401

9. “Parainfluenza Virus 5 V Protein Blocks Interferon Gamma-Mediated Upregulation of NK Cell Inhibitory Ligands and Improves NK Cell Killing of Neuroblastoma Cells”
by Elisabeth M. Shiffer, Jeremiah L. Oyer, Alicja J. Copik and Griffith D. Parks
Viruses 2024, 16(8), 1270; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16081270
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/8/1270

10. “Challenges in the Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Nervous System”
by Samya Jezine Da Silva, Mauro Jorge Cabral-Castro, Cássia Cristina Alves Gonçalves, Diana Mariani, Orlando Ferreira, Amílcar Tanuri and Marzia Puccioni-Sohler
Viruses 2024, 16(8), 1247; https://doi.org/10.3390/v16081247
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/8/1247