SARS-CoV-2-specific humoral and cellular immunity persists through 9 months irrespective of COVID-19 severity at hospitalisation.
John Tyler SandbergRenata VarnaitėWanda ChristPuran ChenJagadeeswara R MuvvaKimia T MalekiMarina GarcíaMajda DzidicElin FolkessonMagdalena SkagerbergGustaf AhlénLars FrelinMatti SällbergLars I ErikssonOlav RooyackersAnders SönnerborgMarcus BuggertNiklas K BjörkströmSoo AlemanKristoffer StrålinJonas KlingströmHans-Gustaf LjunggrenKim BlomSara Gredmark-Russnull nullPublished in: Clinical & translational immunology (2021)
Our findings describe the initiation and, importantly, persistence of cellular and humoral SARS-CoV-2-specific immunological memory in hospitalised COVID-19 patients long after recovery, likely contributing towards protection against reinfection.