cellular immunity

1. See cell-mediated immunity

Example Sentences

The test, using an antigen called leishmanin, is similar to a skin test for tuberculosis -- a positive response means a person has been exposed to the parasite and has cellular immunity that prevents further clinical symptoms.

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That unseen mechanism was what scientists call cellular immunity, and its foot soldiers are T cells.

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If a lab test were able to measure cellular immunity as easily as antibodies, “that would spread like wildfire, because everyone is searching for one,” Meissner said.

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There’s also encouraging evidence that this cellular immunity is long-lasting.

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“It’s a way — the only scalable way we have now — to quantify cellular immunity,” said Ernesto Guccione, a Mount Sinai immunology researcher who helped design the test and has a patent pending.

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