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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Comparative Analysis of Lymphocyte Populations in Post-COVID-19 Condition and COVID-19 Convalescent Individuals.

Luisa Berger, Johannes Wolf, Sven Kalbitz, Nils Kellner, Christoph Lübbert, Stephan Borte

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. B Cell Dynamics and Transitional B Cells in Long COVID.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025
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6 authors.

Luisa BergerDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Hospital St. Georg, 04129 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0009-0003-5881-9000
Johannes WolfDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital St. Georg, 04129 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9669-0899
Sven KalbitzDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Hospital St. Georg, 04129 Leipzig, Germany.
Nils KellnerDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Hospital St. Georg, 04129 Leipzig, Germany.
Christoph LübbertDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Hospital St. Georg, 04129 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6942-5785
Stephan BorteDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital St. Georg, 04129 Leipzig, Germany.

Funding

Jeffrey Modell Foundation for Primary Immunodeficiencies JMF LeipzigUniversity of Leipzig program of Open Access Publishing
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reduced lymphocyte counts in peripheral blood are one of the most common observations in acute phases of viral infections. Although many studies have already examined the impact of immune (dys)regulation during SARS-CoV-2 infection, there are still uncertainties about the long-term consequences for lymphocyte homeostasis. Furthermore, as persistent cellular aberrations have been described following other viral infections, patients with "Post-COVID-19 Condition" (PCC) may present similarly. In order to investigate cellular changes in the adaptive immune system, we performed a retrospective analysis of flow cytometric data from lymphocyte subpopulations in 106 patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who received medical care at our institution. The patients were divided into three groups according to the follow-up date; laboratory analyses of COVID-19 patients were compared with 28 unexposed healthy controls. Regarding B lymphocyte subsets, levels of IgA + CD27+, IgG + CD27+, IgM + CD27- and switched B cells were significantly reduced at the last follow-up compared to unexposed healthy controls (UHC). Of the 106 COVID-19 patients, 56 were clinically classified as featuring PCC. Significant differences between PCC and COVID-19 convalescents compared to UHC were observed in T helper cells and class-switched B cells. However, we did not detect specific or long-lasting immune cellular changes in PCC compared to the non-post-COVID-19 condition.

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COVID-19immune systemlong-COVIDlymphocyte subpopulationspost-acute COVID syndromepost-COVID-19 condition (PCC)SARS-CoV-2

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PMID38928701
PMCPMC11202600

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