HHV-6 Specific T-Cell Immunity in Healthy Children and Adolescents

Frontiers in Pediatrics
Christine M SchwarzChristian Urban

Abstract

Objective: Primary infection with human herpes virus 6 (mainly HHV-6B) commonly occurs in the first 2 years of life leading to persistence and the possibility of virus reactivation later in life. Consequently, a specific cellular immune response is essential for effective control of virus reactivation. We have studied cell-mediated immune response to HHV-6 (U54) in healthy children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: By flow cytometry, the amount of cytokine (interferon gamma-IFN- γ, interleukin 2-IL-2, tumor necrosis factor alpha-TNF-α) secreting T-cells were measured after 10 days of pre-sensitization and 6 h of re-stimulation with mixtures of pooled overlapping peptides from U54, staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB, positive control), or Actin (negative control) in healthy children and adolescents without any underlying immune disorder or infectious disease. Results: All individuals showed a virus-specific response for at least one cytokine in either CD4+ or CD8+ cells. Percentages of individuals with HHV-6-specific TNF-α response in CD4+ (48% of individuals) as well as CD8+ (56% of individuals) were always the highest. Our data show significantly higher frequencies of HHV-6-specific TNF-α producing CD8+ T-cells in individ...Continue Reading

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Dec 6, 2019·Viruses·Joachim DennerBenedikt B Kaufer

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
PCR
density gradient centrifugation
flow cytometry
Assay

Software Mentioned

SPSS
FACSDIVA

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