5.048.
We are pleased to announce that Viruses has received a new
#ImpactFactor
of 5.048, ranks 10th out of 36 (Q2) journals in the 'Virology' category, as published in the 2021 Edition of the Journal Citation Reports.
Our sincerest gratitude to all who contributed.
#Viruses2020
Second Day! Leading virologists from around the world and across the broad field of virology to share results of their recent studies in Barcelona.
@MDPIOpenAccess
We are pleased to announce that
@VirusesMDPI
will be awarding two travel awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD students. Please apply online at by 31 October 2019.
Warm welcome to our new Associate Editor Prof. Florian Krammer. Prof. Krammer works in Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York as an expert on influenza virus vaccines, hantavirus glycoprotein-antibody interactions and et al:
Which viruses are present in a Zoo🔍 Virus surveillance at a human-animal interface.
Anna S. Fomsgaard et al. present findings of viruses detected in a Danish Zoo using their recently developed field-deployable, nanopore mNGS workflow:
#Emerging
viral diseases are a major threat to global health, and nearly two-thirds of emerging
#human
infectious diseases are
#zoonotic
. Full text at
🎙️Meet our new Editorial Board Member 🎉🎉🎉
Prof. Gilda Tachedjian
@GildaTachedjian
Retroviral Biology and Antivirals Laboratory, Life Sciences Discipline, Burnet Institute, GPO Box 2284, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
@BurnetInstitute
#Viruses
Travel
#Awards
consisting of 800 CHF each will be granted to support travel to a virology conference in 2019. The
#Young_investigator
#Award
will consist of 2,000 CHF, an invitation to speak at the Viruses 2020 conference in Barcelona, Spain and an engraved plaque.
Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) has been regularly detected in Australian bats since 1996. While the virus does not cause population level impacts in bats and has minimal impacts on domestic animals, it does pose a public health risk. Full text at
We are pleased to announce that Viruses will be awarding a prize to a young investigator demonstrating excellence in virology. The nominations will be assessed by an evaluation committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Eric O. Freed. Nominate here:
We are happy to let you know that Viruses will reach 5,000th publications milestone soon. Thank you very much for your support! In order to celebrate this occasion, we would like to offer the 5000th a waiver and grant 25% discount for 10 papers published before and after.
📢Big news! Viruses 2024 Conference - 'A World of Viruses' is officially underway!
🎉Join us for enriching discussions, share your research in a supportive environment, and reconnect with colleagues in an inspiring setting. See you there!
#Viruses2024
#Barcelona
#conference
PHIDA: A High Throughput Turbidimetric Data Analytic Tool to Compare Host Range Profiles of
#Bacteriophages
Isolated Using Different Enrichment Methods at
#Wuhan
#coronavirus
#COVID19
This review summarizes the current knowledge on viral diversity, reservoir hosts, and the geographical distributions of bat coronaviruses in China, and aim to predict virus hotspots and cross-species transmission potential.
Mark Your Calendars! 🗓️
Join us at
#Viruses2024
- A World of Viruses in Barcelona, Spain, from 14th to 16th Feb 2024. Don't miss the abstract submission deadline on October 4th. Save the date and be part of this
#viral
event! 🌍🔬
#conference
#MDPIviruses
A new review: From Host to
#Phage
Metabolism: Hot Tales of
#Phage
T4’s Takeover of E. coli written by Elizabeth Kutter and her group was published recently. Please access at: to read the full text.
🎙️Meet our new Editorial Board Member 🎉🎉🎉
Dr. Moriah L. Szpara 📍Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
@penn_state
, University Park
@UPSalisbury
.
Viruses will be awarding a prize to a young investigator demonstrating excellence in virology. It will consist of 2000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Viruses, an invitation to speak at the Viruses 2022 international virology conference and an engraved plaque.
📌We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nicholas Wu is one of the winners of the Viruses 2022 Early Career Investigator Award!
🎊Congratulations
@wchnicholas
🎊
❓Can we discriminate between
#lytic
and
#lysogenic
#phages
❓
Arnau et al. aimed to do this by comparing the similarity of their
#genomic
signatures to those of their hosts, reflecting their co-evolution:
We are glad to announce that ‘Viruses 2022—At the Leading Edge of Virology Research’, is now open for registrations with early bird deadline 14 January 2022:
🔗.
We would be very pleased to count on your participation at this event.
#MDPIviruses
Feline calicivirus (
#FCV
) is a major cause of upper respiratory tract disease in cats, with widespread distribution in the feline population. Peter A. White's article talk about the potential therapeutic agents for FCV infection. Available at:
IF 3.816!
We are pleased to share that Viruses received an increased Impact Factor of 3.816 according to the latest 2020 JCR report. We thank our editors, authors, reviewers, partners, and all others in the network for your great support!
Kindly spread.
In Vitro Evaluation of a Phage Cocktail Controlling Infections with Escherichia coli. The study aimed on characterizing phages and composing a phage cocktail suitable for the prevention of infections with E. coli. View Full-Text:
The
#Sequence
of Two
#Bacteriophages
with Hypermodified Bases Reveals Novel Phage-Host Interactions by Andrew Kropinski and colleagues, this paper reports on the sequence analysis and annotation of two phages with modified bases.
Read it at:
Congratulations to Dr. Eric Freed, the Editor-in-Chief of Viruses, for being awarded the KT Jeang Retrovirology Prize 2018.
@NCICCR_HIVDRP
@VirusesMDPI
@MDPIOpenAccess
For more information, please access at
Molecular Organisation of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus
Pulkkinen & colleagues present a 3.3 Å cryo-EM structure of the TBEV virion of the Kuutsalo-14 isolate, confirming the overall organisation of the virus.
#encephalitisvirus
#microscopy
Discovery of
#LanamaVirus
, a Distinct Member of Species Kunsagivirus C (Picornavirales: Picornaviridae), in Wild Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus). View Full-Text:
The deadline of Viruses Travel Awards has been extended to 20 November 2019. If you would like to attend a virology conference, we encourage to apply these awards. For more information and application:
🔝One of the most cited papers in Viruses🔝
Harapan et al. provided a comprehensive overview of
#monkeypox
, including epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and management:
#MDPIvirues
Troy C. Sutton wrote a review on the topic of the Pandemic Threat of Emerging H5 and H7
#Avian
Influenza Viruses. This review belongs to the Special Issue "What’s New with Flu?" Please access at:
Following Acute Encephalitis, Semliki Forest Virus is Undetectable in the
#Brain
by Infectivity Assays but Functional Virus
#RNA
Capable of Generating Infectious
#Virus
Persists for Life
🔗
#SFV
#alphavirus
#Host
#Shutoff
in
#Influenza
A
#Virus
: Many Means to an End, Rachel Emily Levene and Marta Maria Gaglia
@TuftsUniversity
describe the different mechanisms that influenza
#NS1
, PA-X and RdRp proteins use to induce host shutoff in virus-infected cells.
🔗
The Salmonella enterica
#bacteriophage
P22 is one of the most promising models for the development of
#virus
-like particle (VLP) nanocages.
📌This article gives an overview of the literature on this particle
🧐Viruses are excellent manipulators of
#host
cellular machinery, behavior, and
#life
cycle, with the host cell cytoskeleton being a
#primordial
viral target.
🔎
The #𝘠𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 bacteriophages fPS-2, fPS-65, and fPS-90, isolated from pig stools, have long contractile tails and elongated heads, and they belong to genus
#Tequatroviruses
in the order #𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴. Full paper at
We are happy to announce that the 4th edition special issue collaborated with
@EVirusBioinfC
has already been online. We are looking forward to all of your contributions!
Special issue "Mosquito-Borne Virus Ecology", guest edited by Dr. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, is open for submission. We welcome your submissions till the end of 2020. Read full text here: .
📢 Attention Virology Enthusiasts❗️
🏆Applications now open for Viruses 2024 Early Career Investigator & Travel Awards. Unlock opportunities in virology excellence🤩
👉Details can be seen here:
#Awards
#ResearchPapers
#ScienceDay
#Virology
📢We are glad to announce that Dr. Carolien van de Sandt is one of the winners of the Viruses 2022 Early Career Investigator Award!
🎉Congratulations
@CvandeSandt
🎉
#MDPIviruses
The number of novel
#bacteriophage
sequences has expanded significantly as a result of many metagenomic studies of
#phage
populations. Colin Hill's new review is about
#RNA
Phage Biology in a
#Metagenomic
Era. Read the full-article:
Viruses will be awarding two travel awards for Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD students. The deadline (31 October 2019) for application is approaching. Please apply online at .
NIH-funded postdoctoral positions are available immediately in the laboratory of Dr. Akira Ono at the University of Michigan Medical School. For detailed inforation, please see here:
Multifactorial White Matter Damage in the Acute Phase and Pre-Existing Conditions May Drive Cognitive Dysfunction after
#SARS
-CoV-2 Infection:
#Neuropathology
-Based Evidence
👉by Gelpi et al.
We are pleased to share that
#Viruses
received an increased Journal
#ImpactFactor
of 3.811, with a 5-Year Impact Factor 3.916. Our hearty thanks to Academic Editors, Authors, Reviewers and all who helped for your continued support and contributions.
#Porcine
deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is an emerging infectious disease of swine with
#zoonotic
potential.
#Phylogenetic
analysis suggests that PDCoV originated recently from a host-switching event between birds and mammals. Full paper at
🪼In this article, Stante et al. aimed to isolate virulent phages targeting bacteria that are part of the A. aurita-associated microbiota:
#bacteriophage
#Caudoviricetes
#MDPIviruses
John Karijolich's group recently published an article focusing on
#FUS
( the cellular protein Fused-in-sarcoma) Negatively Regulates Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (
#KSHV
) Gene Expression. Free access at:
Viruses hijack these structures and increase their chances of successful infection by binding or moving along them to the cell surface. Read more at
#Viral
Hijack
This paper by
@sarasongtanin
et al. focuses on the molecular virology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, and treatment of chronic hepatitis E virus infection, especially in
#immunocompromised
patients:
"A Glimpse at the Anti-Phage Defenses Landscape in the Foodborne Pathogen Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Typhimurium"
🧪Woudstra and Granier
#bioinformatically
investigated the landscape of S.
#Typhimurium
#antiphage
defenses:
Congratulations to
@CvandeSandt
, the winner of the 2022 Viruses Early Career Investigator Award! 👏
Her insightful presentation on the Dynamics of CD8+ T Cell Immunity to Circulating and Pandemic Viruses at the 2024 'A World of Viruses' Conference was remarkable!
Viruses have affiliated with The
@AmerSocVirol
(ASV), the
@sev_virologia
(SEV), the
@CanSocVirol
(CSV), the Italian Society for Virology (SIV-ISV) and the
@AusVirologySoc
(AVS) and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.
The paper covers the history of the discovery and description of phiKZ. The importance of the phiKZ species and of other giant phage species in practical phage therapy is noted given their broad use in commercial phage preparations. View full text at
🎙️Meet our new Associate Editor for Section “Antivirals & Vaccines” 🎉🎉
Dr. Ester Ballana Guix
AIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa and Health Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain
🔗
A postdoctoral position is currently available in a research program focused on mechanisms of assembly and RNA recognition during retroviral replication. Application deadline: 30 Jun 2018. More info:
We are pleased to announce that Viruses will be awarding a prize to a young investigator demonstrating excellence in virology. The nomination deadline is 31 January 2021. For more information and nomination:
#COVID19
#CoronavirusOutbreak
#Wuhan
The article published in June 2019 by Kwok-Yung Yuen and Patrick C. Y. Woo team shows that it is important to preserve horseshoe bat species natural habitats and avoid contact with these bats.
@MDPIOpenAccess
#𝘗𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘦 is a large family of
#arthropod
-borne viruses with over 100 species
#worldwide
. Several cause severe diseases in both humans and livestock. Full paper at
The researchers present the
#characterization
of a #𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘦 (vB_FhiM_KIRK) including the morphology, the genome sequence and the induction of the
#prophage
. Full paper at
The Host Cytoskeleton Functions as a Pleiotropic Scaffold: Orchestrating Regulation of the Viral Life Cycle and Mediating Host Antiviral Innate Immune Responses
by Meilin Li et al.
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the etiological agent of all forms of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). K1 gene studies have identified five major molecular genotypes with geographical clustering. Read more at
#HHV
-8
#epidemiology
Superimposition of Viral Protein Structures: A Means to Decipher the Phylogenies of Viruses. View Full-Text:
This article belongs to the Special Issue In Memory of Michael Rossmann: