Salut,
Une étude suédoise pré-publiée montre que "de nombreuses personnes atteintes d'une COVID-19 légère ou asymptomatique présentent une immunité dite à médiation par les lymphocytes T contre le nouveau coronavirus, même si elles n'ont pas été testées positives pour les anticorps. Selon les chercheurs, cela signifie que l'immunité du public est probablement plus élevée que ne le suggèrent les tests d'anticorps." (source : communiqué de presse du Karolinska Institutet, traduit par DeepL)
Voici l'abstract de la prépublication :
SARS-CoV-2-specific memory T cells will likely prove critical for long-term immune protection against COVID-19. We systematically mapped the functional and phenotypic landscape of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses in a large cohort of unexposed individuals as well as exposed family members and individuals with acute or convalescent COVID-19. Acute phase SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells displayed a highly activated cytotoxic phenotype that correlated with various clinical markers of disease severity, whereas convalescent phase SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells were polyfunctional and displayed a stem-like memory phenotype. Importantly, SARS-CoV2-specific T cells were detectable in antibody-seronegative family members and individuals with a history of asymptomatic or mild COVID-19. Our collective dataset shows that SARS-CoV-2 elicits robust memory T cell responses akin to those observed in the context of successful vaccines, suggesting that natural exposure or infection may prevent recurrent episodes of severe COVID-19 also in seronegative individuals.
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