Saranya Sridhar,etc.,al. Cellular immune correlates of protection against symptomatic pandemic influenza. Nature Medicine Year published: (2013) DOI: doi:10
The role of T cells in mediating heterosubtypic protection against natural influenza illness in humans is uncertain. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pH1N1) provided a unique natural experiment to determine whether crossreactive cellular immunity limits symptomatic illness in antibody-naive individuals. We followed 342 healthy adults through the UK pandemic waves and correlated the responses of pre-existing T cells to the pH1N1 virus and conserved core protein epitopes with clinical outcomes after incident pH1N1 infection. Higher frequencies of pre-existing T cells to conserved CD8 epitopes were found in individuals who developed less severe illness, with total symptom score having the strongest inverse correlation with the frequency of interferon-γ (IFN-γ)+ interleukin-2 (IL-2)? CD8+ T cells (r = ?0.6, P = 0.004). Within this functional CD8+IFN-γ+IL-2? population, cells with the CD45RA+ chemokine (C-C) receptor 7 (CCR7)? phenotype inversely correlated with symptom score and had lung-homing and cytotoxic potential. In the absence of crossreactive neutralizing antibodies, CD8+ T cells specific to conserved viral epitopes correlated with crossprotection against symptomatic influenza. This protective immune correlate could guide universal influenza vaccine development.
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