Zoonotic Influenza (8th International Influenza Meeting)
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 19906
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptation processes of avian influenza viruses required to cross the species barrier; characterization of bat influenza viruses; Borna disease virus; SARS-CoV-2: Freiburg-COVID-19 consortium
Interests: interaction of influenza viruses and other respiratory pathogens with the host cells and immune system; innate immune mechanisms in acute virus infections; host-targeted antivirals against respiratory viruses
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Dear Colleagues,
Influenza is a major acute respiratory disease in humans whose epidemiology is decisively shaped by a huge animal reservoir in birds, and therefore is a bona fide zoonosis. Besides humans and birds, influenza A viruses (IAVs) are found in many different species, including pigs, horses, seals, and even bats. The evolutionary development of influenza A viruses (IAVs) in humans and animals is unpredictable. E.g., while it was expected that new pandemic viruses might emerge in Asia from avian sources, the first pandemic in the 21st century took its course from Mesoamerica and was caused by a reassortant virus of swine origin. Since then, we have seen the onset of a strong evolutionary dynamic of variant and reassortant IAVs in pigs in Europe with, so far, unknown zoonotic potential of the circulating strains. Additionally, infections of birds by highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses occur all over the world and occasionally are transmitted to humans, still posing a pandemic threat.
Because of the importance of these issues, “Zoonotic Influenza” has been chosen as the highlighted topic for the 8th International Influenza Meeting in Münster/Germany (Sep. 2–4, 2022). This Special Issue, “Zoonotic Influenza”, should, however, not be restricted to conference proceedings but should be open to all authors working on any aspects of the animal-to-human transmission of influenza viruses.
Topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Viral mechanisms to overcome the species barrier between animals and humans;
- Molecular determinants of species specificity and pathogenicity;
- Influenza in animals and potential zoonotic risk;
- Epidemiology of highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans;
- Evolution, epidemiology, and zoonotic potential of swine influenza;
- Bat influenza and its relation to influenza in other species;
- Measures to prevent zoonotic transmission.
Prof. Dr. Martin Schwemmle
Prof. Dr. Stephan Ludwig
Guest Editors
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