COVID-19 Makes B Cells Forget, but T Cells Remember
Author(s) -
Pablo F. Cañete,
Carola G. Vinuesa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.013
Subject(s) - biology , covid-19 , virology , betacoronavirus , microbiology and biotechnology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , medicine , pathology
Understanding which arms of the immune response are responsible for protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection is key to predicting long-term immunity and to inform vaccine design. Two studies in this issue of Cell collectively suggest that, although SARS-CoV-2 infection may blunt long-lived antibody responses, immune memory might still be achieved through virus-specific memory T cells.
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