Advances in Rabies Research 2025–2026

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue, titled ‘Advances in Rabies Research 2025–2026’, is to continue to collect novel contributions in the field of rabies research, providing new insights and addressing research on unresolved issues. Evolution, structural biology, viral replication, virus–host interaction, pathogenesis and immunity, clinical virology of medical and veterinarian relevance, gene therapy, novel antiviral strategies and pre-exposure rabies vaccination are a selection of topics relevant to research in the field, and manuscripts on these topics can be submitted to this Special Issue.

The Special Issue is associated with the following two Rabies In The Americas (RITA) international conferences: RITA XXXVI, which recently took place in Lima, Peru, in October 2025, and RITA XXXVII, which will be taking place in Tempe, Arizona, United States, in 2026 (dates to be confirmed at a later time). RITA is a conference that has taken place every year since 1990 in the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico, and more recently in Brazil and Argentina, as well as other Latin American countries. It aims to connect researchers, national and local directors of programs, laboratory workers, those in the Americas and in other parts of the world who are involved in the surveillance, prevention and control of rabies. RITA conferences are events strictly centered on all aspects of rabies research and provide excellent opportunities to focus on research topics in this area. We invite RITA participants to contribute their original research papers presented at these two RITA conferences to this Special Issue of Viruses. For further information, please visit the following websites: Rabies In The Americas <https://www.rabiesintheamericas.org/>, and RITA Peru <https://ritaconference.org/en/>.

Dr. Juan A. Montaño-Hirose
Prof. Dr. Charles E. Rupprecht
Guest Editors

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