Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

T cell assays differentiate clinical and subclinical SARS-CoV-2 infections from cross-reactive antiviral responses

  • Ane Ogbe,
  • Barbara Kronsteiner,
  • Donal T. Skelly,
  • Matthew Pace,
  • Anthony Brown,
  • Emily Adland,
  • Kareena Adair,
  • Hossain Delowar Akhter,
  • Mohammad Ali,
  • Serat-E Ali,
  • Adrienn Angyal,
  • M. Azim Ansari,
  • Carolina V. Arancibia-Cárcamo,
  • Helen Brown,
  • Senthil Chinnakannan,
  • Christopher Conlon,
  • Catherine de Lara,
  • Thushan de Silva,
  • Christina Dold,
  • Tao Dong,
  • Timothy Donnison,
  • David Eyre,
  • Amy Flaxman,
  • Helen Fletcher,
  • Joshua Gardner,
  • James T. Grist,
  • Carl-Philipp Hackstein,
  • Kanoot Jaruthamsophon,
  • Katie Jeffery,
  • Teresa Lambe,
  • Lian Lee,
  • Wenqin Li,
  • Nicholas Lim,
  • Philippa C. Matthews,
  • Alexander J. Mentzer,
  • Shona C. Moore,
  • Dean J. Naisbitt,
  • Monday Ogese,
  • Graham Ogg,
  • Peter Openshaw,
  • Munir Pirmohamed,
  • Andrew J. Pollard,
  • Narayan Ramamurthy,
  • Patpong Rongkard,
  • Sarah Rowland-Jones,
  • Oliver Sampson,
  • Gavin Screaton,
  • Alessandro Sette,
  • Lizzie Stafford,
  • Craig Thompson,
  • Paul J. Thomson,
  • Ryan Thwaites,
  • Vinicius Vieira,
  • Daniela Weiskopf,
  • Panagiota Zacharopoulou,
  • Oxford Immunology Network Covid-19 Response T Cell Consortium,
  • Oxford Protective T Cell Immunology for COVID-19 (OPTIC) Clinical Team,
  • Lance Turtle,
  • Paul Klenerman,
  • Philip Goulder,
  • John Frater,
  • Eleanor Barnes,
  • Susanna Dunachie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21856-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Understanding the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 is dependent on being able to distinguish COVID-19 immune responses from cross-reactive immune responses to other coronaviruses. Here the authors show that choice of antigens and whether an ICS, ELISPOT or T cell proliferation assay is used has a major effect on this discriminatory ability.