Within the innate compartment, the numbers of inflammatory monocytes, neutrophils, and classical dendritic cells (CD11b+ and CD8+) were unaltered in the spleens of IFN-γR−/− and VAV-Cre+ IFN-γR2flox/flox mice compared with the numbers in WT mice on day 7 of infection (Fig. 2A). Here, CD8A is linked to infection.