At 3 days and 1 day before viral challenge, all cohorts of mice were treated intraperitoneally with 500 μg each of both anti-CD4 (clone GK1.5) and anti-CD8a (YTS 169.4) (BioXcell)52 (link)53 (link). Blood samples from each mouse were then assessed for the presence of CD4 and CD8 T cells by flow cytometry. Cells were fluorescently labelled with anti-CD4 (clone RM4-5, ebioscience) and anti-CD8 (clone 53-6.7, BD) at a dilution of 1:200 in FACS buffer (1% fetal bovine serum in PBS). Cells were then analysed using the BD FACSCalibur and flow plots created in FlowJo 8.7.
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