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Front Immunol. 2017 Sep 12;8:1137. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01137. eCollection 2017.

Protective Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-Specific T-Cell Immunity Is Frequent in Kidney Transplant Patients without Serum Anti-CMV Antibodies.

Frontiers in immunology

Nicolle H R Litjens, Ling Huang, Burç Dedeoglu, Ruud W J Meijers, Jaap Kwekkeboom, Michiel G H Betjes

Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  2. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

PMID: 28955345 PMCID: PMC5600906 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01137

Abstract

The absence of anti-cytomegalovirus (CMV) immunoglobulin G (IgG) is used to classify pretransplant patients as naïve for CMV infection (CMV

Keywords: B cells; T cells; cellular immunity; cytomegalovirus; humoral immunity

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