LAT and eye infection: Male Swiss Webster mice infected via ocular infection after corneal scarification with LAT+/+ 17syn+ HSV-1 virus strain (17-AHR1) establishes latency approximately 4 times more efficiently compared to a LAT deletion mutant that lacked 1,964 bp encompassing the LAT promoter and first 828 bp of the 5’ end of LAT (17-AH) in [13].