About the Authors

Ebba Könighofer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ebba.konighofer@gu.se (EK); rickard.norden@microbio.gu.se (RN)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Carolina Gustafsson

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Lindvi Gudmundsdotter

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Simplexia AB, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ekaterina Mirgorodskaya

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Proteomics Core Facility, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Jonas Nilsson

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Proteomics Core Facility, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Maria Ekblad

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Beata Adamiak

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Eva Jennische

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Stefan Lange

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Edward Trybala

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Staffan Görander

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Tomas Bergström

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Jan-Åke Liljeqvist

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Rickard Nordén

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ebba.konighofer@gu.se (EK); rickard.norden@microbio.gu.se (RN)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Clinical microbiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: J.L., L.G., S.G., and T.B. develop a vaccine against HSV-2 infection in the company Simplexia AB. No financial contributions to this work have been received from Simplexia AB. All other authors report no conflicts of interest.