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Fresh versus frozen PMBC using the SARS CoV-2 T-SPOT.COVID test. Which works best?

With the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and subsequent vaccination programme, a need has arisen to check for the development of T lymphocyte immunity against the virus. The SARS CoV-2 T-SPOT.COVID test measures the level of T cell immunity and has been used extensively in our laboratory over the l...

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Autores principales: Nadat, Fatima, Morbey, James, Clark, Brendan, Welbury Smith, Matthew, Daga, Sunil, Ahmed, Ahmed, Chimakurthi, Chenchu, Carter, Clive
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9074295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35533746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jim.2022.113278
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Sumario:With the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and subsequent vaccination programme, a need has arisen to check for the development of T lymphocyte immunity against the virus. The SARS CoV-2 T-SPOT.COVID test measures the level of T cell immunity and has been used extensively in our laboratory over the last 6 months. Whilst this kit has been designed to be used on freshly isolated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), the use of frozen cells would improve clinical utility. To this end we have directly compared the use of fresh and frozen PBMC in this assay. Using healthy control blood along with renal and liver transplant patient samples we have shown that results with frozen cells are generally comparable to those from fresh cells in many, but not all samples tested, and that it is important to assess PBMC cell number and viability in thawed samples before proceeding in order to be able to interpret these results correctly.