Valaciclovir therapy for secondary suppression of immune response to herpesviruses: An exploratory study

• Kirsty McGee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsty McGee, Alex Dowell, Richard McManus, Paul Moss

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Alex Dowell ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsty McGee, Alex Dowell, Richard McManus, Paul Moss

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Sarah Lauder,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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• Jusnara Begum,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Odette Chagoury,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Qatar Metabolic Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

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• Wayne Croft,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Lee Middleton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Yongzhong Sun,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Jianmin Zuo,

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

  Affiliation School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Richard McManus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsty McGee, Alex Dowell, Richard McManus, Paul Moss

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

  Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Brighton and University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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• Paul Moss

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsty McGee, Alex Dowell, Richard McManus, Paul Moss

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: P.MOSS@bham.ac.uk

  Affiliations School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6895-1967

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