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Comparative Genomics of Herpes Simplex Virus 2 Isolated from a Maternal-Neonatal Dyad Reveals High Consensus Sequence Homology as Well as Minor Variant Diversity.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society - 4 Aug 2026
Abu Rass Reem, Simons Lacy M, Bowen Christopher D, Carter Haley S, Renner Daniel W, Szpara Moriah L, Akhtar Lisa N
Abstract excerpt
Neonatal herpes simplex virus disease most often occurs following mother-to-neonate transmission during childbirth. However, genomic differences between the maternal and neonatal viral populations are poorly understood. Here, we performed deep whole-genome sequencing of clinical HSV-2 samples obtained from a maternal-neonatal dyad to investigate viral population dynamics during transmission. Newborns can become...
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