Intramuscular vaccination of mice with the human herpes simplex virus type-1(HSV-1) VC2 vaccine, but not its parental strain HSV-1(F) confers full protection against lethal ocular HSV-1 (McKrae) pathogenesis

• Shan K. Naidu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Rafiq Nabi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Nagarjuna R. Cheemarla,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Brent A. Stanfield,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Paul J. Rider,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Nithya Jambunathan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Vladimir N. Chouljenko,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Renee Carter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7963-9063

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• Fabio Del Piero,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Ingeborg Langohr,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Konstantin G. Kousoulas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vtgusk@lsu.edu

  Affiliations Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7077-9003

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