Electron Microscopy in Virus Diagnostics and Research

Dear Colleagues,

For about 75 years electron microscopy is used to investigate viruses. While the focus of applications has changed over the years, it is still important to visualize virus structures and the cellular context in which they occur. Electron microscopy provides an “open view” about all matter present in a sample which helps to find even the unexpected. Besides a bare description of structures, information collected by electron microscopy allows to generate new hypothesis and ideas about many aspects of the virus life cycle, especially if applied in conjunction with other methods.

The major idea of this special issue of Viruses is to compile high quality papers which show how electron microscopy is used in research and diagnostics of viruses today.

Contributions may cover the following fields of applications:

• development of techniques and methods
• structural biology of viruses
• cell biology of infection, replication, assembly and egress
• description of new viruses
• clinical aspects of viral infections
• diagnostics

Reports of original data and reviews about relevant aspects are highly welcome.

Dr. Michael Laue
Guest Editor

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