Virus Neutralizing and Enhancing Antibodies
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Therapeutic Vaccines and Antibody Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 17098
Special Issue Editor
Interests: influenza; RSV; ebola; filovirus; zika; flavivirus; immune response; antibody affinity; phage display; infection; vaccines
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diseases caused by viral pathogens remains a global public health challenge. Therefore, development of effective vaccines and therapeutics for viruses including SARS-CoV-2 is a high global priority. Current vaccines provide variable immunity against emerging viruses, precluding effective stockpiling and may require yearly vaccination. While both humoral and cellular immunity plays a role in protection against viruses, current vaccines evaluate antibody as surrogate readouts for vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy. During infection, viruses induce the production of antibodies differing in their isotype, neutralization capacity, breadth of neutralization, recognition of surface versus internal viral proteins, epitope specificity, and overall structure. Despite recent advancements in the characterization of antibody responses to a number of multiple viral pathogens including SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, Zika, Influenza, RSV, HIV, at both molecular and epidemiological levels, critical knowledge gaps still exist.
Therefore, there is need to perform in-depth to understand antibody responses following vaccination and infection. It may facilitate development and evaluation of vaccine and therapeutics against virus.
This Special Issue of Vaccines aims at addressing the unresolved key issues that hamper our understanding of the interactions between viruses and antibodies. The new presented studies will shed light on the multifaceted biological role that antibodies play during the course of virus infections. Both original research and review articles are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Antigenic evolution and immunity to virus;
- Antibody and human cellular immune cell responses;
- Broadly cross-reactive and universal immunity to virus;
- Antigens and antibody in pathogenesis of viral infections;
- Dynamics of the antibody response during viral infections.
- We look forward to receiving your interested contribution.
Dr. Surender Khurana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antibody
- neutralization
- antibody-dependent enhancement
- vaccine efficacy
- therapeutic antibodies