During systemic infection by Listeria monocytogenes the host develops a robust T cell-mediated immune response against the major immunodominant antigens of the pathogen. The enzyme-linked immuno-spot (ELISPOT) test is an accurate and reproducible means of measuring the extent of this T cell response. Here we describe a detailed ELISPOT protocol for measuring an epitope-specific CD8+ T cell-mediated immune response in mice vaccinated with low doses of L. monocytogenes. The basic approach can be easily adapted for the analysis of other vaccination regimes and target epitopes.
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Bahey-El-Din, M., & Gahan, C. G. M. (2014). Vaccination studies: Detection of a Listeria monocytogenes-specific T cell immune response using the ELISPOT technique. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1157, 263–274. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0703-8_22
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