Mosquito-Borne Encephalitis Viruses: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 176
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Interests: cytomegalovirus; arboviruses; immune response; animal models
Interests: virus-specific cellular immunity; molecular epidemiology; immunogenetics; T cell receptor; human immunodeficiency virus; flaviviruses; dengue
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Dear Colleagues,
Mosquito-borne arboviral infections are most commonly subclinical or present with mild febrile symptoms, but symptomatic illness usually manifests as one of four clinical syndromes. These are: (1) febrile illness; (2) polyarthritis and rash; (3) acute central nervous system disease; (4) haemorrhagic fever, although many arboviruses can cause more than one clinical syndrome. This collection of papers is concerned with arboviruses known to cause acute nervous system disease, especially encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis. There are several virus families that contain members that cause acute neurological disease, including the Togavivirdae with eastern, Venezuelan and western equine encephalitis viruses (EEEV, VEEV and WEEV, respectively); the Flaviviridae with Japanese encephalitis, Murray Valley encephalitis, West Nile and St Louis encephalitis viruses (JEV, MVEV, WNV and SLEV, respectively), as well as Rocio and Ilheus viruses (ROCV and ILHV, respectively); and the Peribunyaviridae and Phenuiviridae with members from two genera, Orthobunyavirus and Phlebovirus, the former containing California encephalitis, Cache Valley, Jamestown Canyon, La Crosse and Snowshoe hare viruses (CEV, CVV, JCV, LACV, SSHV, respectively) and the latter containing Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV). In addition to the above, neurological disease in humans can also be caused by the Togavirus chikungunya virus (CHIKV), the flaviviruses dengue 1-4 viruses (DENV1-4) and Zika virus (ZIKV) and occasionally by the Orthobunyaviruses Inkoo (INKV) and Tahyna (TAHV) viruses.
This Special Issue will bring together papers on the ecology (especially on the vectors and vertebrate hosts), clinical symptoms and long-term outcomes of infection, differential diagnosis and control issues associated with these encephalitic arboviruses. Short reviews on aspects of the different virus families will also be welcomed.
Dr. Megan Lloyd
Dr. Allison Imrie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mosquito-borne arboviruses
- encephalitic togaviruses
- encephalitic flaviviruses
- encephalitic bunyaviruses
- mosquito vectors
- laboratory diagnostics
- one health approaches to arbovirus ecology
- arbovirus surveillance
- vaccines to encephalitic arboviruses
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