Opportunistic Viral Infections, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "General Virology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 November 2025 | Viewed by 38
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Interests: Chlamydia and Mycoplasma human infections; toxoplasmosis; opportunistic infections; sexually transmitted infections; historical medicine; migrant infections; HIV/AIDS
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Dear Colleagues,
For many years we have been accustomed to associating certain opportunistic viral infections with HIV/AIDS infection, the pandemic still ongoing around the world that causes thousands of new infections every day and still has a high mortality and lethality rate.
AIDS has taught us a great deal about opportunistic infections due to microorganisms that are rare or in themselves often endowed with little virulence, but which multiply to become aggressive pathogens in immunocompromised individuals as a result of infections, therapies or situations leading to immunodepression. Today, however, we must not forget other opportunistic infections that arise in people who do not have HIV/AIDS, but who have frailty because they are affected by non-infectious diseases which require lengthy treatment with anti-tumor, biotechnological and chemotherapeutic drugs in general. Among these, herpesvirus, HBV, HPV, human polyoma virus 1 (BK), JC virus and some coronaviruses are just a few examples.
In the third edition of this Special Issue, we will focus on the most recent advances in opportunistic viral infections from epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutic perspectives, with special emphasis on the immunocompromised host, the frail individual, the transplanted and the individual undergoing chemotherapy or antibody-based drugs against TNF-α blockers.
Prof. Dr. Carlo Contini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- epidemiology of opportunistic viral infections
- immunocompromised individuals (HIV/AIDS, transplants, tumors, chemotherapeutics, biotechnological drugs, etc.)
- advances in diagnosis, management and treatment of opportunistic viral infections
- JC virus
- HPV
- CMV, EBV and other herpesvirus
- human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1)
- hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
- polyomavirus
- new Coronavirus including SARS-CoV-2
- emerging viruses (arbovirus other zoonotic virus)
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