Animal Viruses in the Pandemic Era

Dear Colleagues,

In these unsettling times the world has been dramatically dismantled by the current Sars-CoV-2 pandemic. Viruses have become hot topics, causing an unprecedented political and economic impact.

The incredible versatility and variability of animal viruses developing different strategies to survive and thrive will be the topic of this Special Issue.

We invite authors to submit original research articles, short communications, perspectives, and reviews focusing on viral coping strategies in animal/human populations, including replication mechanisms, host immune response and their translational aspects for intervention strategies to break the disease patterns and transmission cycles of all viruses, with particular emphasis on animal coronaviruses.

We highly encourage manuscripts describing new aspects of the ecology and epidemiology of known and less known animal viruses, as well as defining containment and intervention strategies, including vaccines and antivirals, that may represent brilliant models of infectious disease intervention.

This collection of studies aims to identify those successful and valid strategies that sustain the health of livestock and companion animals in the context of their interaction with humans within the One Health perspective.

Dr. Giulia Dowgier
Dr. Rosina Ehmann
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.