CD8A and severe acute respiratory syndrome: Multiple studies have been performed in mouse models describing the importance of type 1 CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in SARS-CoV (128, 129), with one study establishing that virus-specific memory CD8+ T cells provided substantial protection from lethal closely related SARS-CoV infection in a mouse model, emphasizing the importance of a cell-based type 1 immune response for survival of SARS infections (102).