T cell response and testing

Aggie95

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8:49a, 6/25/20

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Based on the recent study/theory that some are exposed to COVID but don't produce antibodies but show a T-cell response....

Can you test for this? Would it be a similar test? Expensive?

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9:08a, 6/25/20

AG

I use to do lab tests but never heard of this one. Of course I haven't done that work in 20 years either.

Either way the article suggests T cell testing is a thing so I guess is relatively new

Antibody testing is cheap. I doubt this one is cheap

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In reply to Aggie95 • 10:35p, 6/25/20

You can do flow cytometry to look for spikes in specific t-cell lines. You just have to know what T cell receptors you want to map out. I don't know how much it costs, but I'm sure it's not cheap, and it's definitely not something that can be done on a large scale.

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