Editorial: Therapeutic targets and strategies for long COVID and post-viral syndrome

Yajing Yang; Bowen Li; Jing Yang

doi:10.3389/fcimb.2026.1820002

Editorial: Therapeutic targets and strategies for long COVID and post-viral syndrome

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2026 Mar 13:16:1820002. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1820002. eCollection 2026.

Authors

Yajing Yang^#¹, Bowen Li^#², Jing Yang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Anqing Hospital, the Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anqing, China.
² Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Frontier Science Center for Stem Cell Research, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: T cell activation; biomarkers; gut microbiota; immune regulation; long COVID; post-viral syndrome (PCS); therapeutic targets; vaccine prevention.

Publication types

Editorial