Hematology and Oncology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
Institute for Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
Cytometry A. 2021 May;99(5):429-434. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.24309. Epub 2021 Jan 31.
Transient lymphocytopenia is frequently observed in acute phase of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It remains a concern whether impairment of cellular immunity may be retained after COVID-19. Here, we demonstrate by extensive lymphocyte profiling in 44 adults after mild COVID-19 that cellular immunity is not fundamentally altered in convalescent patients. Except for increased activated CD8+ lymphocytes, total counts of B, T, and NK cells and their subsets did not differ significantly between patients after COVID-19 and healthy controls after a median of 27 days (range 13-45) suggesting no residual cellular immune deficiency after recovery from mild COVID-19.
一过性淋巴细胞减少症在 2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)急性期经常观察到。人们仍然关注 COVID-19 后细胞免疫功能是否仍然受损。在这里,我们通过对 44 名轻度 COVID-19 后成年人的广泛淋巴细胞分析表明,在恢复期患者中,细胞免疫并未发生根本改变。除了增加的活化 CD8+淋巴细胞外,COVID-19 后患者和中位时间为 27 天(范围为 13-45)的健康对照者的 B、T 和 NK 细胞及其亚群的总计数没有显著差异,表明从轻度 COVID-19 恢复后没有残留的细胞免疫缺陷。