Herpesvirus Diseases in Humans and Animals

Dear Colleagues,

Herpesviruses are DNA viruses that infect humans and animals with the ability to induce latent and lytic infections in their hosts, causing critical health complications. There are eight herpesvirus types currently known to infect humans, including Herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2), varicella-zoster virus, Epstein–Barr virus, human herpesvirus 6 (variants A and B), human herpesvirus 7, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, and human cytomegalovirus. Besides, animal herpesviruses are responsible for significant economic losses throughout the world. The Herpesviridae family includes herpesviruses that infect vertebrates and invertebrates, and, in veterinary medicine, the herpesviruses of cattle, buffalo, horses, pigs, goats and sheep are important (e.g., equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1), feline herpesvirus, bovine herpesvirus 1, and pseudorabies virus). So, the herpesvirus infection has a variety of clinical forms and is extremely widespread in the world while existing treatment methods are not always quite effective.

For this Special Issue of Pathogens, we invite you to submit either an original research article or an insightful review that addresses the herpesviruses entry, signaling pathways, cell-to-cell spread, replication, pathogenesis, immune evasion, or in vitro models that facilitate studying herpesviruses infection.

Dr. Miroslava Šudomová
Dr. Sherif T. S. Hassan
Guest Editors

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