The Astrocyte Type I Interferon Response Is Essential for Protection against Herpes Simplex Encephalitis

J Virol. 2022 Feb 23;96(4):e0178321. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01783-21. Epub 2021 Dec 8.

Cooper K Hayes^#¹, Daniel Giraldo^#¹, Douglas R Wilcox^{2

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4}, Richard Longnecker¹

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
² Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: astrocytes; encephalitis; herpes simplex virus; interferon; microglia.

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