Mucosal CD8+ T cell responses induced by an MCMV based vaccine vector confer protection against influenza challenge

• Xiaoyan Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-8528

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• Jennifer D. Oduro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Julia D. Boehme,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Research Group Immune Regulation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Infection Immunology Group, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Infection Control and Prevention, Health Campus Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation, Otto von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Lisa Borkner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Thomas Ebensen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8906-063X

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• Ulrike Heise,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Mouse Pathology Unit, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Marcus Gereke,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Research Group Immune Regulation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Infection Immunology Group, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Infection Control and Prevention, Health Campus Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation, Otto von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7879-3360

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• Marina C. Pils,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Mouse Pathology Unit, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Astrid Krmpotic,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka Croatia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5470-5370

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• Carlos A. Guzmán,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Dunja Bruder,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Group Immune Regulation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Infection Immunology Group, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Infection Control and Prevention, Health Campus Immunology, Infectiology and Inflammation, Otto von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Luka Čičin-Šain

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: luka.cicin-sain@helmholtz-hzi.de

  Affiliations Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Hannover-Braunschweig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3978-778X

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