Owing to their capacity to rapidly spread across the population, airborne pathogens
represent a significant risk to global health. Indeed, several of the past major global
pandemics have been instigated by respiratory pathogens. A greater understanding of the
immune cells tasked with protecting the airways from infection will allow for the development
of strategies that curb the spread and impact of these airborne diseases. A specific subset of
memory T-cell resident in both the upper and lower respiratory tract, termed tissue-resident …