RE: Morning all ..23 May 2020 10:16
a Good vaccine should get you 6 years ......
ELISPOT data of the 16 SARS individuals after in vitro expansion of the PBMC. The data showed that 9 of the 16 SARS individuals displayed high frequencies of SFU against the NP protein, the 3a protein, or both proteins. Three individuals had a single response, and others showed multiple responses. These results showed that SARS-specific memory T cells are present in SARS-recovered individuals 6 years after infection, even though the frequency of these cells is low. Interestingly, in contrast to our study, T cell responses can be observed directly in the ex vivo ELISPOT assay conducted in a study by Li et al. (11) in which PBMC were obtained from patients 1 year postinfection. Such comparison suggests that the frequency of SARS-specific memory T cells progressively declines with time. This hypothesis is also supported by another study that monitored immune response in SARS individuals over a 2-year period and showed that CTL responses decline over time at 3, 6, and 18 months postinfection