These findings are consistent with previous studies and they reported that dynamic changes occur after one week of infection and showed an increasing trend in lymphocytes. 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 The existing data implies that peripheral T cell diminution is associated with disease severity and viral load and recovery of counts can happen swiftly either due by subsequent clinical or virological recovery. 27 In consistent with previous published studies, our study also indicates that the percentage and absolute counts were significantly decreased in severe cases in comparison with mild COVID‐19 cases.
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Characterization of memory T cell subsets and common γ-chain cytokines in convalescent COVID-19 individuals.
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