SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 (Closed)
A topical collection in Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This collection belongs to the section "SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19".
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2. Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA
Interests: virology; vaccines; antivirals; influenza viruses; arenaviruses; Zika virus; coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; innate immunity; adaptive immunity; interferon; virus-host interactions
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Interests: virology; virus-host interaction; coronavirus; vaccines; antivirals; flavivirus; Zika virus
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Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
In December 2019, a previously unknown coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was isolated in Wuhan, China, from a patient with respiratory disease linked to potential contact with wild animals. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans has resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic, with an alarming case fatality rate, posing a threat to human health and socioeconomic activities across the world of a magnitude unprecedented since the “Spanish flu” pandemic in 1918. Multinational efforts to develop vaccines have resulted in several candidates with excellent safety and efficacy profiles in human clinical trials, and large-scale vaccination campaigns were implemented early in 2021. There are currently three Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved vaccines approved for emergency use against SARS-CoV-2.
In this Topical Collection about SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, we aim to cover all the aspects related to SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or COVID-19 disease, including virus–host interactions, viral infection, transmission, pathogenesis, antivirals, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, immunity, innate and adaptive immune responses, prophylactics, therapeutics, reverse genetics, reporter viruses, and animal models.
Our goal is for this Topical Collection of manuscripts related to SARS-CoV-2 and associated COVID-19 disease to cover the latest investigations on this important human pathogen.
Prof. Dr. Luis Martinez-Sobrido
Dr. Fernando Almazan Toral
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- COVID-19 disease
- SARS-CoV-2
- epidemiology and evolution
- pneumonia
- vaccine development
- antiviral drug development
- neutralizing antibodies
- treatment
- diagnosis
- prevention, prognosis and therapeutics
- clinical studies, medical studies and medicine
- public health research
- reverse genetics
- reporter viruses
- immunity
- innate immunity
- adaptive immunity
- virus–host interactions
- animal models