This issue, Guest Edited by Drs. Shyam Mohapatra and Gary Hellermann, will include topics such as: Virus-induced airway injury and asthma inception, Pediatric infectious diseases and asthma, Rhinoviruses and inception or exacerbation of asthma, Respiratory syncytial virus infections in the adult asthmatic-role of viral subversion and host susceptibility in RSV infection, New rhinovirus clades and their significance in asthma exacerbation and airway remodeling, Metapneumovirus and asthma.