Mohammad Ali, Stephanie Longet, Isabel Neale, Patpong Rongkard, Forhad Uddin Hassan Chowdhury, Jennifer Hill, Anthony Brown, Stephen Laidlaw, Tom Tipton, Ashraful Hoque, Nazia Hassan, Carl-Philipp Hackstein, Sandra Adele, Hossain Delowar Akther, Priyanka Abraham, Shrebash Paul, Md Matiur Rahman, Md Masum Alam, Shamima Parvin, Forhadul Hoque Mollah, Md Mozammel Hoque, Shona C Moore, Subrata K Biswas, Lance Turtle, Thushan I de Silva, Ane Ogbe, John Frater, Eleanor Barnes, Adriana Tomic, Miles W Carroll, Paul Klenerman, Barbara Kronsteiner, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Susanna J Dunachie
Obesity and type 2 diabetes (DM) are risk factors for severe COVID-19 outcomes, which disproportionately affect South Asian populations. This study aims to investigate the humoral and cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in adult COVID-19 survivors with obesity and DM in Bangladesh. In this cross-sectional study, SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody and T cell responses were investigated in 63 healthy and 75 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 recovered individuals in Bangladesh, during the pre-vaccination first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020...
April 20, 2024: Clinical and Experimental Immunology