Innovative Advances and Applications in Medical and Molecular Virology
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 1537
Special Issue Editors
Interests: virus; virology; influenza; pneumococcal pneumonia; infectious diseases
Interests: respiratory viruses; diagnosis; treatment; aerosol transmission; infection control; pathogenesis; epidemiology; bloodborne viruses; congenital viral infections; viral infections of the immunocompromised
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular diagnostics play an important and ever-increasing role in clinical and medical virology, particularly the various strategies employed to detect, quantify and characterize viral nucleic acids. These molecular strategies include the polymerase chain reaction, droplet digital PCR, transcription-mediated amplification, loop-mediated isothermal amplification, and various sequencing technologies. Such assays have become standard detection methods in many diagnostic and research laboratories around the world. Another evolving aspect is the type of sample to which these assays are applied, i.e., not just standard clinical samples, but also single cells, ancient ice-cores, wastewater, air, and other environmental samples. For this Special Issue, we welcome papers on the development of innovative assays and/or applications to novel sample types or situations. Manuscripts on innovations in molecular virology are also welcome—including on viral genomics, metagenomics, interactomics, integrative omics, CRISPR-Cas strategies, organoid models, and novel antiviral strategies.
Dr. Vincent T. K. Chow
Dr. Julian Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medical virology
- molecular virology
- molecular diagnostics
- genomics
- metagenomics
- interactomics
- integrative omics
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