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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2007
Harvey Friedman, Merion, PA (US);
Elizabeth E. Zumbrun, Middletown, MD (US);
Fushan Wang, Broomall, PA (US);
Harvey Friedman, Merion, PA (US);
Elizabeth E. Zumbrun, Middletown, MD (US);
Fushan Wang, Broomall, PA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
This invention provides methods of vaccinating a subject against a Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection and disorders and symptoms associated with same, and impeding, inhibiting, reducing the incidence of, and suppressing HSV infection, neuronal viral spread, formation of zosteriform lesions, herpetic ocular disease, herpes-mediated encephalitis, and genital ulcer disease in a subject, comprising the step of contacting the subject with a mutant strain of the HSV, containing an inactivating mutation in a gene encoding a gE, gI, Us9, or other proteins.