AUTHOR=Jha Hem Chandra , Uppal Timsy , Dabral Prerna , Verma Subhash C. TITLE=Editorial: The interaction of chronic viral infections and SARS-CoV-2 infection and its effect on the COVID-19 pathogenesis JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=Volume 16 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1727446 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2025.1727446 ISSN=1664-302X