Limited protection against early-life lung murine cytomegalovirus infection results from deficiency of cytotoxic CD8 T cells

• Luís Fonseca Brito,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Virus-Host Interaction, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Eleonore Ostermann,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Virus-Host Interaction, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Silvia Tödter,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Sanamjeet Virdi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Research Unit Virus Genomics, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Daniela Indenbirken,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Unit Virus Genomics, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Renke Brixel,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Virus-Host Interaction, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Ramon Arens,

  Roles Resources

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

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• Adam Grundhoff,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Unit Virus Genomics, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Wolfram Brune,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virus-Host Interaction, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Felix Rolf Stahl

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: f.stahl@uke.de

  Affiliations Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Virus-Host Interaction, Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-8967

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