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I'd be really interested to hear someone in microbiology opine on the difficulties in measuring T-cell and other non-antibody data? What makes it so much harder
by ethbr0 5y ago
I'd be really interested to hear someone in microbiology opine on the difficulties in measuring T-cell and other non-antibody data? What makes it so much harder?
- VeninVidiaVicii 5y agoYou're probably looking for an immunologist.
- rossdavidh 5y agoNot the expert you're looking for, but I recall a past Derek Lowe article mentioned in passing that it was much more labor-intensive (presumably by a trained lab tech) to get T-cell data. Again, this is just my memory of a past Derek Lowe article, which I might be misremembering.
- KaiserPro 5y agoThere are mechanisms for t-cell testing in reasonably wide use now. from what I understand its not done that much comparatively is because its bloody expensive. I think one of the mechanisms is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISpothttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISpot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISpothttps://en.wikipedia.or... However I would take all of this with a pinch of salt. I asked my doctor friend about it, they said "We use t-cell tests for a bunch of things, but its really expensive. I can't remember what thing we were looking for, probably TB, everyone had TB in that ward, so it might be that."