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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2019 Jul 25;19(12):3284–3298. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15505

Table 7:

Relationship between ELISPOT Measures of immunosuppression and any viral Infection

Mechanistic Assays All Subjects (N=60)*
n (%)
Any Viral Infection (N=52)
n (%)
No Viral Infection (N=8)
n (%)
P-value
High immunosuppression per ELISPOT (at least one positive** sample)
 Yes 43(71.7) 41(78.8) 2(25.0) 0.003
 No 16(26.7) 10(19.2) 6(75.0)
Number of High immunosuppression samples** per Subject
 0 16(26.7) 10(19.2) 6(75.0) 0.055
 1 9(15.0) 9(17.3) 0
 2 7(11.7) 6(11.5) 1(12.5)
 3 7(11.7) 7(13.5) 0
 4 11(18.3) 11(21.2) 0
 5 5( 8.3) 5( 9.6) 0
 6 3( 5.0) 2( 3.8) 1(12.5)
 10 1( 1.7) 1( 1.9) 0
*

One subject met the composite endpoint without having any viral specimens obtained.

**

Samples were considered positive for high immunosuppression if the response to positive control (phytohemagglutinin, PHA) was less than 100 spots and cell viability was > 50%.