Neonatal HSV Infections May Lead to Long-Term Cognitive Impairment – The Microbiologist

Read article - David Leib, chair and professor of microbiology and immunology; Katherine Nautiyal, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences; Abigail Dutton, MED '22, Guarini; and Evelyn Turnbaugh, Guarini, are featured in an article about their research into the effects of neonatal exposure to herpes simplex virus in mice on long-term cognitive decline. "What Abby and Evelyn discovered was that mice who had received a miniscule dose of HSV when they were a day old weren't able to learn as well as those that were in the control group and were uninfected," Leib said.