CD8A and infection: We compared viral fitness (Fig 6B) and the CD8 T-cell response to selected viral epitopes (Fig 6C) in the PLN of BALB/c mice on day 7 after intra-plantar infection with the necroptosis-permitting virus mCMV-M45fs, in which M45 is inactivated by a frame-shift mutation [105], and the necroptosis-inhibiting viruses mCMV-WT and mCMV-M45fs-Rev.