CD8A and infection: Results from PBMCs from 5 different healthy donors infected with vOka showed similar trends in permissiveness to VZV infection as the Ellen strain with monocytes having significantly higher infection rates when compared to all other immune cells analyzed, NK cells having significantly higher infection rates than all immune cells analyzed aside from monocytes, and NKT cells and B cells having significantly higher infection rates than CD8+ T cells (Fig 1C and S2 Table).