About the Authors

William P. Halford

halford@siumed.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Ringo Püschel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Brandon Rakowski

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

William Halford is a co-inventor along with David Davido (University of Kansas) on a patent application describing the use of HSV-2 ICP0- mutant viruses as a vaccine to prevent genital herpes.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WPH. Performed the experiments: WPH RP BR. Analyzed the data: WPH BR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPH RP BR. Wrote the paper: WPH.