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
Unfortunately, the status of a person’s cellular immunity is more difficult to capture and quantify.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
What scientists do not yet know, she added, is "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. 17, 2021
“Also, the second dose induces cellular immunity, which predicts not only longer protection, but better protection against variant strains.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2021
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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