Except while in transit from their old homes to their new lymphocytes, the viruses multiply inside of your cells safe from any antibodies that might be present in blood, lymph and secretions.

Still, early in the process, infected cells display fragments of the viral proteins in their surface membranes of class I histocompatability molecules. CTLs--that is specific CD8+ cells--will be able to bind to the infected cell, destroying it before it can release a fresh crop of viruses.