Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) strain MacIntyre has a severe defect in the anterograde spread after replication in the nucleus. It egresses and infects only neurons that are presynaptic to the infecte
A clinical sample was collected from a male child, aged 1.5 years, who was diagnosed with Herpetic Gingivostomatitis at Basra Teaching Hospital (Republican) in Basrah City, Iraq. Following collection,
We are using Illumina deep sequencing to obtain and assemble full genome sequence for a number of human and suid alpha- herpesviruses. These viruses are natural pathogens of the nervous system, and ou