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A major limitation is the immunological immaturity of specific pathogen-free (SPF) mice relative to pathogen-experienced adult humans. Here, we use a sequential infection (SI) model that recapitulates cumulative pathogen exposure and define its impact on immune composition and function. Beyond the previously reported expansion of memory T cells, SI induced durable, system-wide remodeling across lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues, reshaping innate and adaptive immune populations, tissue-resident immunity, and hematopoietic output. Single-cell transcriptomic analyses revealed inflammatory imprinting of na\u00efve CD4 and CD8 T cells, whereas memory T cells acquired enhanced effector programs coupled with reduced biosynthetic activity, transcriptional states that more closely resemble those of pathogen-experienced adult humans. 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