**Acknowledgements**

Neurotopic m-CoV research in an experimental animal model has provided a timely and appropriate platform to take a step toward writing this comprehensive book chapter on encephalitis. This work has been a collaborative effort for two decades between the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER-K), India; Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), India; University of Pennsylvania, USA; Thomas Jefferson University, USA and University of Colorado Denver, USA. The joint endeavor has been supported and nurtured by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) on several occasions. m-CoV research was generously funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India; National Multiple Sclerosis

*Neurotropic Virus-Induced Meningoencephalomyelitis DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102674*

Society, USA; M.E. Groff Surgical Medical Research and Education Charitable Trust; and Lindback Foundation Career Enhancement Award, USA. The authors would also like to express their gratefulness to Dr. Dhriti Chatterjee, Dr. Kaushiki Biswas, Dr. Abhinoy Kishore, Dr. Subhajit Das Sarma, Dr. Afaq Hussain, Mr. Soumya Kundu, Mr. Abhishek Bose, Mr. Sourodip Sengupta, Ms. Mithila Kamble, Ms. Vaishali Mulchandani, Mr. Saurav, Mr. A. Safiriyu Abass, Dr. Mahua Maulik, and Ms. Soma Nag who have contributed immensely to the generation of a large volume of work on m-CoV research over the years. Authors would like to thank Dr. Kenneth S. Shindler, Dr. Lawrence C. Kenyon, and Dr. Randall J. Cohrs for their long-standing collaboration on m-CoV research. The success of this work has been primarily dependent on the collaborative efforts of the national and international m-COVID team and many researchers whose names are listed in the references.
