Asymptomatic neonatal herpes simplex virus infection in mice leads to persistent CNS infection and long-term cognitive impairment

• Abigail J. Dutton ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abigail J. Dutton, Evelyn M. Turnbaugh

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Evelyn M. Turnbaugh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abigail J. Dutton, Evelyn M. Turnbaugh

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Chaya D. Patel,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America, Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Callaghan R. Garland,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Sean A. Taylor,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Roberto Alers-Velazquez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• David M. Knipe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Katherine M. Nautiyal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• David A. Leib

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: David.A.Leib@dartmouth.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5539-8480

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