Natural killer cells expanded in vivo or ex vivo with IL-15 overcomes the inherent susceptibility of CAST mice to lethal infection with orthopoxviruses

• Patricia L. Earl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia L. Earl, Jeffrey L. Americo

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jeffrey L. Americo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia L. Earl, Jeffrey L. Americo

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Bernard Moss

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bmoss@NIH.Gov

  Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-8564

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