“…The diverse components of the immune system do not work in isolation; in the intact human, they may interact and cooperate to partially control HCMV replication, but we have little detailed knowledge about this. In a recent paper, authors with a strong background in examining many of these functions individually, assembled together some of the immune functions that require collaborative contributions from more than one component of the immune system 17 . Specifically, they studied viral proteins expressed at the surface of the infected cell and determined when antibody plus NK cells could mediate ADCC.…”