OBJECTIVE: Cellular immune responses are difficult to detect in the peripheral blood of persons with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. We sought to determine whether T cell responses were present in the liver of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HCV coinfection. METHODS: T cells were expanded from liver-biopsy samples from 10 patients coinfected with HIV and HCV (median CD4(+) cell count, 456 cells/mm(3)) and 8 patients infected with HCV alone. CD8(+) cell responses were detected by use of a modified enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISpot) assay with recombinant vaccinia virus, and CD4(+) cell responses were detected by use of ELISpot with recombinant HCV proteins core, nonstructural (NS) 3, and NS5. RESULTS: Intrahepatic CD8(+) cell responses to HCV were detected in 7 of 10 patients coinfected with HCV and HIV (median frequency, 638 spot-forming cells [sfc]/1 x 10(6) cells) and were similar to those observed in patients singly infected with HCV (7/8; median, 647 sfc/1 x 10(6) cells). Intrahepatic HCV-specific CD4(+) cell responses were also comparable in both groups and correlated with the intrahepatic CD8(+) cell responses (r=0.59; P=.03). CONCLUSION: HCV-specific CD8(+) cell responses are present in the liver of persons with chronic HCV infection even when they are coinfected with HIV; these correlate with intrahepatic HCV-specific CD4(+) cell responses.
OBJECTIVE: Cellular immune responses are difficult to detect in the peripheral blood of persons with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. We sought to determine whether T cell responses were present in the liver of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HCV coinfection. METHODS: T cells were expanded from liver-biopsy samples from 10 patients coinfected with HIV and HCV (median CD4(+) cell count, 456 cells/mm(3)) and 8 patients infected with HCV alone. CD8(+) cell responses were detected by use of a modified enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISpot) assay with recombinant vaccinia virus, and CD4(+) cell responses were detected by use of ELISpot with recombinant HCV proteins core, nonstructural (NS) 3, and NS5. RESULTS: Intrahepatic CD8(+) cell responses to HCV were detected in 7 of 10 patients coinfected with HCV and HIV (median frequency, 638 spot-forming cells [sfc]/1 x 10(6) cells) and were similar to those observed in patients singly infected with HCV (7/8; median, 647 sfc/1 x 10(6) cells). Intrahepatic HCV-specific CD4(+) cell responses were also comparable in both groups and correlated with the intrahepatic CD8(+) cell responses (r=0.59; P=.03). CONCLUSION:HCV-specific CD8(+) cell responses are present in the liver of persons with chronic HCV infection even when they are coinfected with HIV; these correlate with intrahepatic HCV-specific CD4(+) cell responses.
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