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. 2020 Oct 16;11:586984. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.586984

Table 2.

Summary of potential cross-reactivity immunity to SARS-CoV-2 from selected pathogens.

SARS-Peptide Hits(1) B(2) CD8 T(3) CD4 T(4) Vaccine (5)
Mumps virus (MuV) 2 1 0 0 Y
Measles virus (MeV) 0 0 0 0 Y
Rubella Virus (RuV) 0 0 0 0 Y
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 1 1 0 0 Y
Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) 4 1 2 0 Y
Polio Virus (PoV) 0 0 0 0 Y
Papilloma Virus (PaV) 2 1 1 1 Y
Rotavirus A (RTVA) 0 0 0 0 Y
Influenza A virus (IAV) 0 0 0 0 Y
Influenza B virus (IBV) 0 0 0 0 Y
Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1) 0 0 0 0 N
Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2) 2 1 0 0 N
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) 9 3 2 1 N
human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) 1 0 0 0 N
human rhinovirus A (HRVA) 1 1 0 0 N
human rhinovirus B (HRVB) 0 0 0 0 N
human rhinovirus C (HRVC) 0 0 0 0 N
Human Immunodeficiency 1 (HIV1) 0 0 0 0 N
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) 120 41 21 11 Y
Bordetella pertussis (Bpe) 111 36 18 12 Y
Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Cdi) 83 33 14 5 Y
Clostridium tetani (Cte) 85 34 17 7 Y
Haemophilus influenzae (Hin) 53 16 6 5 Y
Neisseria meningitides (Nme) 60 23 9 3 Y
Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) 61 19 13 6 Y

1Number of peptides in the relevant pathogen with ≥8 residues and identity ≥80% with SARS-CoV-2. 2Peptide hits with B cell reactivity ≥0.4 (predicted as cross-reactive B cell epitopes). 3Peptides predicted as cross-reactive CD8 T cell epitopes. 4Peptides predicted as cross-reactive CD4 T cell epitopes. 5Whether these pathogens are subject to vaccinations. Whole dataset available in Supplementary Dataset 1.