🌱 Call for Papers — Viruses Application of Genetically Engineered Plant Viruses, 2nd Edition 1st Edition published 6 papers ✅ 2nd Edition now open! Viral vectors, VIGS, VLPs, cross-protection & more. 📅 28 Feb 2027 🔗 www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #PlantVirology #VIGS #Viruses

🐱 Why is one FPV variant taking over in China? This Viruses study tracked 41 feline panleukopenia virus strains (2019–2024) and found the VP2-91S substitution rose from 15.6% to 100% in Chinese strains. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16... #FPV #FelinePanleukopenia #Virology

🧪 Antiviral Natural Formulations: Biopolymeric Films for Viral Prevention and Treatment Chitosan-coupled fucoidan films show broad antiviral activity against bovine coronavirus, adenovirus, poliovirus, HSV, and RSV — and are non-cytotoxic. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17... #Antivirals #Biopolymers

🧠 High Frequency of HHV-7 Reactivation in Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Long COVID HHV-7 positivity was 76.7% in a long COVID cohort vs 29.1% pre-COVID — hypothesis-generating evidence for HHV-7 in post-viral neuropsychiatric illness. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... #LongCOVID #HHV7

💉 New Special Issue: Long-Acting #PrEP and #HIV Prevention Guest Editor: Dr. Diego Ripamonti (Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo) Covering cabotegravir, lenacapavir, real-world efficacy, adherence, barriers & implementation. Deadline: 6 May 2027 🔗 www.mdpi.com/journal/viru...

🧬Brincidofovir inhibits #pseudorabies virus by disrupting viral replication Screening 2,104 FDA drugs identified brincidofovir, which gave 100% protection in mice challenged with a lethal human-origin PRV strain. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16... #PRV #Antivirals

👶 New Special Issue in Viruses: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Human #Viral Infections Edited by Dr. Kiyonori Miura and Dr. Kazuo Itabashi. Covering HIV, #CMV, HBV, HTLV-1, HSV, and #Zika — screening, vaccines, and prevention. Deadline: 31 May 2027 🔗 www.mdpi.com/journal/viru...

🐖 New & Highly Accessed in Viruses: PBMC Transcriptomics in PRRS How PBMC transcriptomes reveal drivers of resistance and tolerance to PRRSV — including the first CD163 gene-edited PRRSV-resistant pig line. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... #PRRSV

🏆 Final call: Tu Youyou Award nominations close 31 October 2026. Recognising outstanding researchers in natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry — CHF 100,000, a medal, and a certificate. Nominate here: tuyouyouprize.org/nomination/f... #TuYouyouAward #NaturalProducts

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🦠 Highly cited Viewpoint in Viruses: High Rates of Miscarriage and Stillbirth among Pregnant Women with Clade I #Mpox — Confirmed in the 2023–2024 DR Congo Outbreak Clade I MPXV can infect placenta and fetus, causing congenital infection and fetal loss. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16... #Pregnancy

🦟 AMPK-Orchestrated Metabolic Reprogramming in Some #Flavivirus Infections How #AMPK balances lipid metabolism, autophagy, mitochondrial dynamics, and innate immunity during #dengue, #Zika, WNV, JEV, and YFV infection — and its therapeutic potential. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18...

🧬 Welcome to our new Guest Editor! Dr. Helder I. Nakaya (USP / Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein) joins Viruses to lead a Special Issue on Systems Immunology of Viral Infections. Now open for submissions — deadline 28 Feb 2027. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #Virology #SystemsImmunology

📢 New announcement in Viruses: Highly Cited Papers Published in 2025 — "Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals" Section 15 top-cited papers covering mpox, dengue, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, RSV, HPV, chikungunya, and more. 👉Read the list: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #Virology #OpenAccess

🩸Mechanisms of Thromboinflammation in Viral Infections How dengue, chikungunya, influenza, and SARS-CoV trigger platelet activation, coagulation, and endothelial dysfunction — and when this tips into DIC and multi-organ failure. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17... #Virology #Thromboinflammation

🧬 New & Highly Accessed in Viruses: #Partitivirus-like RdRPs in the Brevipalpus yothersi genome reveal viral-to-arthropod horizontal gene transfer — a rare case of viral gene domestication in a plant-virus vector mite. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... #Virology #HGT

Congratulations, Jaume! 🎉 Proud to support early-career researchers through our travel awards. Applications for the next round are open — details here: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru...

Jaume Gardela@jgardela.bsky.social · last mo.

Back from Liverpool after enjoying the International Meeting in Arboviruses and their Vectors 🦠🦟 #IMAV2026. It was a great opportunity to engage with other researchers and reconnect with friends. Special thanks to @virusesmdpi.bsky.social for supporting my attendance through a mobility grant.

A Critical Review of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus: Host Plasticity and Potential Spillover Events Phylogenetic analysis of 146 BVDV sequences from 12 mammal species and 55 countries reveals cross-species and cross-border transmission signals. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17... #BVDV #VeterinaryVirology

Arg18 Substitutions Reveal the Capacity of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein for Non-Fullerene Assembly Arg18 coordinates IP6 and enables dNTP passage — and also shapes capsid architecture, supporting octahedral-like facets within a fullerene shell. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16... #HIV #CryoEM

🐄 A Systematic Study of Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus Co-Infection with Other Pathogens How BVDV co-infections with viruses, bacteria, and parasites drive more severe disease — plus a BVDV Co-infection Impact Map. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17... #BVDV #VeterinaryVirology

🧠 New in Viruses — a Highly Accessed review: #Nipah Virus: A Neurotropic #Zoonosis From molecular biology to neuropathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and translational advances — covering how NiV invades the CNS and current vaccine/therapeutic efforts. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18...

🧬 Special Issue now complete — 10 papers published! Viral Strategies and Cellular Countermeasures That Regulate mRNA Access to the Translation Apparatus: 2nd Edition Edited by Dr. Christopher U. T. Hellen. 👉Read the collection: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #Virology #Translation #RNA

🌱 Welcome to our new Associate Editor! Prof. Dr. Yongliang Zhang (China Agricultural University) joins Viruses as Associate Editor of the "Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa" Section. Read his interview: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #PlantVirology #Virology

🦠 Welcome to our new Guest Editor! Dr. Ranawaka A.P.M. Perera joins Viruses to lead a Special Issue on MERS-CoV: Pathogenesis, Immunity, Vaccines, and Therapeutics. Now open for submissions — deadline 15 Dec 2027. 👉 www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #MERS #Coronavirus #Virology

🧬 Highly cited in Viruses: Self-Amplifying RNA: Advantages and Challenges for Vaccine Development saRNA boosts antigen expression at lower doses than mRNA — this review covers its promise, its limitations, and strategies to move forward. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17... #saRNA #Vaccines

Can bovine leukemia virus (BLV) affect human cells? This Highly Accessed Viruses paper profiles the transcriptome of BLV-infected 293T, MCF7, and HeLa cells — and pinpoints EFEMP1 and LXN as novel apoptosis-associated factors. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... #Virology #OneHealth

🦇 Bats as Viral Reservoirs: From Discovery to Pandemic Preparedness Edited by Prof. Patrick C.Y. Woo and Prof. Susanna K.P. Lau, this special issue covers bat virus discovery, interspecies transmission, and pandemic preparedness. Submit here: www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #Virology #Bats #Zoonoses

👉Case report in Viruses: a severely burned patient with relapsing XDR P. aeruginosa VAP & bacteremia was successfully treated with personalized nebulized + IV phage therapy, combined with IFN-γ and imipenem-relebactam. www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16... #PhageTherapy #AMR

🧠 Editor’s Choice in Viruses: HSV‑1 redirects paraspeckle proteins to viral replication compartments in human neuronal cells, linking NONO and SFPQ to viral permissiveness. www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/18... #HSV1 #Neurovirology

🧬 Call for papers: Viruses Special Issue “Genome Packaging and Assembly in RNA Viruses”, edited by Dr. Akhil Chameettachal and Dr. Wei-Shau Hu. Deadline: 30 September 2027 www.mdpi.com/journal/viru... #RNAViruses #Virology

🔬 Review in Viruses: Structural virology helps guide the rational development of antivirals, vaccines and antibodies by revealing viral proteins and replication machinery at high resolution. www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17... #StructuralVirology #Antivirals