Co-Editors-in-Chief
Lynn Soong, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Xiaoping Dong, MD, PhD
Professor, Chief Expert of Virology, Chinese Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Beijing, China
Deputy Editors-in-Chief
Gong Cheng, PhD
Professor, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Peter E. Kima, PhD
Associate Professor, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Vladimir Motin, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Yuelong Shu, PhD
Professor, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Ruifu Yang, PhD
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
Xing-Quan Zhu, PhD
Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi, China
Executive Editor-in-Chief (Vector Biology/Epidemiology)
Fernando Rosado Spilki
Professor, Universidade Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil
Editorial Board
Haroon Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan
Hesham M. Al-Mekhlafi, Professor, Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dennis Bente, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Yuhai Bi, Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Shengbo Cao, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Maria Caridad Montalvo Villalba, Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí (IPK), National Reference Laboratory on Viral Hepatitis, Havana, Cuba
Giorgi Chakhunashvili, One Health Division, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia
Vladimir Dubyanskiy, Stavropol Plague Control Research Institute, Stavropol, Russia
Shouwei Ding, Professor, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
Gülsah Gabriel, Professor, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany
Haitao Guo, Professor, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Masayuki Horie, Associate Professor, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
Aaron Irving, Associate Professor, Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, Zhejiang, China
Na Jia, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Dong-Yan Jin, Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Huaiqi Jing, Professor, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
Atsushi Kawaguchi, Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Ke Lan, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Gregory Lanzaro, Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Shan-Lu Liu, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Mengji Lu, Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Suresh Mahalingam, Professor, Menzies Health Institute Queensland (MHIQ), Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Luis Martinez-Sobrido Professor, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
Carsten Münk, Professor, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Elena Pariani, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Mario Poljak, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
John Antony Jude Prakash, Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Jianming Qiu, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao, Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sergio Rodriquez, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Martin Schwemmle, Professor, Institute of Virology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Amit Sharma, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Qi Shi, Professor, Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention (IVDC), Beijing, China
Qiyi Tang, Professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
Dayan Wang, Professor, China National Influenza Center, Beijing, China
Haidong Wang, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China
Tian Wang, Professor, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Yongning Wu, Professor, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
Yuntao Wu, Professor, Center for Infectious Disease Research, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA
Han Xia, Professor, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Jinlin Zhou, Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
Wenquan Zou, Professor, Institute of Neurology, Jiangxi Academy of Medical Clinical Sciences, The First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
Assistant to Co-Editors-in-Chief
Wanbo Tai
Professor, The Institute of Infectious Diseases Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Gaoke International Innovation Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
We also acknowledge the following individuals for their contributions to the peer review process:
External Handling Editors
Wenping Gong, Professor, Institute for Tuberculosis Research, the 8th Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
Su Han, Professor, Wuxi School of Medicine, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Hanwei Jiao, Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Jun Jiao, Associate Professor, Beijing institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China
Yong Ma, Professor, Shenzhen campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China
Jianwei Shao, Associate Professor, School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, Guangdong province, China
Xi Sun, Associate Professor, Department of parasitology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Jian Wu, Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Zhipeng Xu, Professor, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Kun Yin, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Fei Yu, Professor, School of Life Science, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
Guest Editors for Special Issues
Wu Jian, Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Zeyu Sun, Ph.D., State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Daxian Wu, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi Province, China