Emerging and Re-emerging Respiratory Viruses

Dear Colleagues,

Infectious diseases are still the main cause of human morbidity and mortality, leading to outbreaks and epidemics. In the last century, influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus were the most damaging respiratory infections for humans worldwide. These emerging viral respiratory infections derived from the animal world. Emerging viruses, particularly RNA viruses, can adapt to the rapidly changing global and local environments due to the high error rate of their polymerases. Mutations in the genetic material of RNA viruses accumulate in years and produce new strains of the viruses with new antigenic properties resulting in transmission in humans. The probability of pandemics with new viruses would be high in the future as this type of mutation will reoccur. This Special Issue of Microorganisms seeks to attract original research and review articles focused on (1) the development of diagnostic tests for the early detection of human respiratory viruses; (2) findings on the epidemiology and transmission of human respiratory viruses; (3) the development of new vaccines, antivirals, immunotherapeutics, and/or drug repositioning for respiratory viruses; and (4) virus/host interaction.

Dr. Antonella Bugatti
Guest Editor

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