Hantavirus 2024
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 May 2025 | Viewed by 1078
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hemorrhagic fever viruses; diagnostics; treatments; vaccines; animal models
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hantaviruses; Lassa virus; Lujo virus; Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
Interests: virology; immunology; vaccines; Hantaviruses; Lassa virus; host-pathogen interactions; Viral Immunology; animal modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The field of hantavirology is rapidly evolving. With the recent taxonomic updates and discoveries of hantaviruses in unique regions and reservoir hosts, many exciting changes have occurred over the last several years. Human disease, including hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, associated with rodent-borne species, is causing significant morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world, with limited options for medical intervention. The impact on human health for newly discovered bat- and other non-rodent-borne viral species remains largely unknown, and collectively, like all zoonotic diseases, the true impact of climate change on hantaviral diseases remains to be seen. The present Special Issue covers recent developments in hantavirus research, with an emphasis on ecology, disease manifestations, medical intervention and diagnostic approaches. We openly invite submissions on these or other topics of interest to the hantavirus research community.
Dr. Heinz Feldmann
Dr. David Safronetz
Dr. Bryce Warner
Dr. Kyle Rosenke
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hantavirus
- hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome
- hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
- ecology
- disease manifestations
- medical intervention
- vaccines, therapeutics and clinical aspects
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