cellular immunity
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Even for some whose weakened immune systems mounted an anemic antibody response to vaccination, cellular immunity can kick in robustly and protect against death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
That prepares a more durable second line of immune defense — called cellular immunity — to field a fresh army of antibodies next time the virus that causes COVID-19 threatens to invade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
She added that scientists do not yet know "if this is because of increasing cellular immunity in the population in December 2021 versus an inherent property of the strain that makes it less virulent."
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2021
As my medical colleagues remind me, recovered Covid-19 patients might be expected to have levels of cellular immunity that some vaccines may not trigger.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
Because people with X-linked agammaglobulinaemia are deficient in antibody production but not in cellular immunity, their disease was probably due to a deficiency in B-cell development only.
From Nature ● Jan. 5, 2015
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