PPARA and herpes simplex infectious disease: KEGG analysis demonstrated that most of the significantly enriched pathways of the target genes of DE lncRNAs post infection belong to the pathways including “adipocytokine signaling pathway”, “herpes simplex infection”, “NOD-like receptor signaling pathway”, “PPAR signaling pathway”, “protein export”, “protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum”, “RIG-I-like receptor signaling pathway”, “TGF-beta signaling pathway”, and “Toll-like receptor signaling pathway” (Additional file 6: Table S6).