Mast Cells Expedite Control of Pulmonary Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection by Enhancing the Recruitment of Protective CD8 T Cells to the Lungs

• Stefan Ebert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Ebert, Marc Becker

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Marc Becker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Ebert, Marc Becker

  Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Niels A. W. Lemmermann,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Julia K. Büttner,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Anastasija Michel,

  Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Christian Taube,

  Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Jürgen Podlech,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Verena Böhm,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Kirsten Freitag,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Doris Thomas,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Rafaela Holtappels ,

  ¶RH and MJR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Matthias J. Reddehase ,

  ¶RH and MJR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Virology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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• Michael Stassen

  * E-mail: stassenm@uni-mainz.de

  Affiliation Institute for Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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