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Fox Chase Cancer Center, Basic Sciences Division, Program on Viral Pathogenesis, Philadelphia, PA 19111
It is believed that CD8+ T lymphocytes or Abs can independently clear many primary viral infections, including those caused by Orthopoxviruses (OPV), a genus that includes the human pathogens variola and monkeypox and the vaccine species vaccinia virus. However, most experiments addressing the role of Abs and CD8+ T cells in protection have used viruses that are not specific for the host. In the present study, we used the mouse-specific OPV ectromelia virus and mice deficient in CD40, B cells, or CD8+ T cells and adoptive transfers of CD8+ T or B lymphocytes to show that the protection afforded by CD8+ T cells is incomplete. Despite sustained CD8+ T cell responses, in the absence of Ab responses ectromelia virus persists. This results in delayed disease and inexorably leads to death. Therefore, CD8+ T lymphocytes and Abs are not redundant but complementary and essential to survive infections with a highly pathogenic viruses in the natural host.
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