Respiratory Viruses Evolution, Cross-Species Transmission and Recombination

Dear Colleagues,

As Guest Editor of this Special Issue on “Respiratory Viruses Evolution, Cross-Species Transmission and Recombination”, I am pleased to invite you to submit a manuscript for publication in Viruses (Impact Factor 5.8).

All RNA viruses possess a high mutation rate, which provides a buffer against environmental changes. For these viruses, this type of change can be at different levels: (1) host, (2) cell-type they can infect in a host, and (3) organs or systems within a host. Several respiratory viruses are RNA viruses that accumulate mutations, which make them very good at adapting by generating virus genomes with changes that may be selectively advantageous in new environments or hosts. This explains why these viruses are fast-evolving and have the capacity to jump species barriers and potentially create zoonosis and eventual pandemic, potentially having catastrophic repercussions usually correlating with more severe symptoms within the respiratory tract and sometimes with extra-respiratory tract manifestations and even death. In order to better understand the underlying mechanisms associated with the emergence of RNA respiratory viruses that impose tremendous human health problems and economic burdens, the One Health concept will definitely be helpful.

The present Special Issue of Viruses aims to present a global portrait of some of the most prevalent or emerging human respiratory viruses that have been associated with possible pathogenic processes within the respiratory tract and in extra-respiratory tract manifestations, with special emphasis on coronaviruses and influenza viruses.

Dr. Marc Desforges
Guest Editor

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