{"id":6262,"date":"2021-03-09T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2021-03-09T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:21:27","slug":"sars-cov-2-specific-t-cell-memory-is-sustained-in-covid-19-convalescents-for-8-months-with-successful-development-of-stem-cell-like-memory-t-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/sars-cov-2-specific-t-cell-memory-is-sustained-in-covid-19-convalescents-for-8-months-with-successful-development-of-stem-cell-like-memory-t-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2-Specific T Cell Memory Is Sustained in COVID-19 Convalescents for 8 Months with Successful Development of Stem Cell-like Memory T Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Whole blood analysis from 94 individuals who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea found that, SARS-CoV-2-specific memory T cell responses were maintained at up to 8 months post-symptom onset. Among 30 individuals with longitudinal samples beyond the first month, no significant differences in memory T cell responses were observed between paired samples from different time points. The proportion of stem cell-like memory T cells peaked at 4 months post-symptom onset. Given the self-renewal capacity and multipotency of stem cell-like memory T cells, the authors suggest they may confer long-lasting memory T cell production against SARS-CoV-2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Shin et al.\u00a0(Mar 8, 2021). SARS-CoV-2-Specific T Cell Memory Is Sustained in COVID-19 Convalescents for 8 Months with Successful Development of Stem Cell-like Memory T Cells. Pre-print downloaded Mar 9 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.04.21252658\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.04.21252658<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Whole blood analysis from 94 individuals who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea found that, SARS-CoV-2-specific memory T cell responses were maintained at up to 8 months post-symptom onset. Among 30 individuals with longitudinal samples beyond the first month, no significant differences in memory T cell responses were observed between&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/sars-cov-2-specific-t-cell-memory-is-sustained-in-covid-19-convalescents-for-8-months-with-successful-development-of-stem-cell-like-memory-t-cells\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-immunity","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6263,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}