Please note that review articles in Current Opinion in Virology are by invitation only.

Current Opinion in Virology (COVIRO) is a systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of virology. It publishes 6 issues per year covering the following 11 sections, each of which is reviewed once a year: Emerging viruses: interspecies transmission; Viral immunology; Viral pathogenesis; Preventive and therapeutic vaccines; Antiviral strategies; Virus structure and expression; Animal models for viral diseases; Engineering for viral resistance; Viruses and cancer; Virus vector interactions. There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field.


Current Opinion in Virology builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating reproducible biomedical research targeted at improving human health. It is a companion to the new Gold Open Access journal Current Research in Virological Science and is part of the Current Opinion and Research(CO+RE) suite of journals. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy-of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach-to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.


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Selection of topics to be reviewed
Section Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasised. Section Editors commission reviews from authorities on each topic that they have selected.

Reviews
Authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasising the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.

Editorial Overview
Section Editors write a short overview at the beginning of the section to introduce the reviews and to draw the reader's attention to any particularly interesting developments.

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Editors-in-Chief
Mary Estes
Houston, Texas, USA
Albert Osterhaus
Hannover, Germany
Marion Koopmans
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Editorial Board
Rafi Ahmed
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Martin Beer
Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Ben Berkhout, Dr.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christine Biron
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Juan Carlos de la Torre
La Jolla, California, USA
Rosa Maria del Angel
Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico
Hildegund Ertl
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jane Flint
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Guangping Gao
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
New York, New York, USA
Diane Griffin
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Yi Guan
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Luca Guidotti
Milan, Italy
Eddie Holmes
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Esper Kallas
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Madison, WI, USA and Tokyo, Japan
Hans-Dieter Klenk
Marburg, Germany
Hans-Georg Kräusslich
Heidelberg, Germany
Robert Lamb
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Susana Lopez
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Shan Lu
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Masao Matsuoka
Kyoto, Japan
Malik Peiris
Hong Kong
Vincent Racaniello
New York, New York, USA
Felix Rey
Paris cedex 15, France
Marilyn Roossinck
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Rozanne Sandri-Goldin
Irvine, California, USA
Peter Sarnow
Stanford, California, USA
Mark Schleiss
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Connie Schmaljohn
Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA
Yiming Shao
Beijing, China
Anne Simon
Maryland, Maryland, USA
James Smiley
Edmonton, Canada
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Leuven, Belgium
Scott Weaver
Galveston, Texas, USA
Lindsay Whitton
La Jolla, California, USA