Emerging Viruses 2022: Surveillance, Prevention, Evolution and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Virus replication frequently results in an accumulation of mutations, reassortments and recombinations, contributing to their rapid adaptation to environmental changes, often raising the emergence of new virus variants or species. These features, in addition to globally distributed anthropogenic activities and human dispersal, have resulted in an increasing frequency of outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. The emergence and re-emergence of novel pathogens presume complex and changeable host-pathogen interaction and coevolution, challenging the public health and agricultural systems in regards to the development of cost-effective diagnostic methods, therapeutics and prevention strategies, besides maintaining an efficient epidemiological surveillance.

Conceding the relevance of the anticipation of future epidemics, with the confidence that this goal can only be achieved by accumulating knowledge through high-quality science and appropriate monitoring, we encourage our colleagues to submit articles to this Special Issue Emerging Viruses 2022. We welcome original research and reviews related to virus surveillance and evolution, diagnosis, pathogenesis, clinical aspects, treatments and prevention and metagenomics studies. Relevant findings from human, animal, plant and invertebrate viruses are appreciated.

Dr. Luciana Barros de Arruda
Dr. Fabrício S. Campos
Dr. Maite F.S. Vaslin
Guest Editors

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