The Interplay Between Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 380
Special Issue Editor
Interests: COVID-19; influenza; autoimmune disease
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, "The Interplay Between Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases", will explore how acute, chronic, and latent viral infections precipitate, unmask, or modulate autoimmune disease across the lifespan. We welcome studies that clarify causal links and disentangle mechanisms—molecular mimicry, bystander activation, epitope spreading, persistent antigen, trained immunity, and tissue-specific antiviral responses—as well as work that maps population-level risk and resilience. Equally encouraged are translational investigations that connect mechanism to clinic: biomarkers for prediction and monitoring, therapeutic strategies (antivirals, immunomodulators, tolerogenic approaches), vaccine-related immune dynamics, and precision medicine frameworks for patient stratification. We are especially interested in integrative methodologies (single-cell and spatial omics, systems immunology, machine learning, organoid and humanized models, longitudinal cohorts/registries), studies of special populations (pediatrics, pregnancy, post-transplant, primary and secondary immunodeficiencies), and immune-mediated sequelae of post-viral syndromes.
Our aim with this Special Issue is to compile in-depth studies and contributions exploring emerging mechanisms linking viral infections and the regulation of immune responses to the “self”.
Dr. Ming Zheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- viral infections
- autoimmune diseases
- molecular mimicry
- epitope spreading
- persistent antigen & tissue‐specific antiviral responses
- biomarkers & precision stratification
- vaccine-related immune dynamics
- single-cell & spatial omics
- post-viral syndromes
- immune repertoire
- immune-repertoire alteration syndrome
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