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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2010
Harvey M. Friedman, Merion, PA (US);
Elizabeth E. Brittle, Middletown, MD (US);
Fushan Wang, Broomall, PA (US);
Harvey M. Friedman, Merion, PA (US);
Elizabeth E. Brittle, Middletown, MD (US);
Fushan Wang, Broomall, PA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
This invention provides methods of treating, suppressing, inhibiting, reducing an incidence, reducing the pathogenesis of, ameliorating the symptoms of, or ameliorating the secondary symptoms of a primary or recurring Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection, or prolonging the latency to a relapse of an HSV infection, and disorders and symptoms associated with same and inducing an anti-HSV immune response in a subject comprising the step of contacting the subject with a composition comprising a mutant HSV strain comprising an inactivating mutation in a Us8 gene, followed by a second contacting with the composition.