After co-culture with stimulator cells, PBMC were harvested, washed in 1× PBS, stained extracellularly, permeabilized, and stained intracellularly, using a 14-color panel containing Yellow Live/Dead viability kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and mAb to CD14-BV570 (M5E2, Biolegend), CD19-BV570 (HIB19, Biolegend), CD3-BV650 (OKT3, Biolegend), CD4-PECy5 (RPA-T4, BD), CD8-PerCP-Cy5.5 (SK1, BD), CD45RA-biotin (HI100, BD), CD62L-APC-A780 (DREG-56, Ebioscience), integrin α4β7-A647 (ACT1; conjugated in house) streptavidin(SAV)-Qdot800 (Invitrogen) CD69-ECD (TP1.55.3, Beckman Coulter), IFN-γ-PE-Cy7 (B27, BD), TNF-α-A700 (MAb11, BD), IL-2-BV605 (MQ1-17H12, Biolegend), IL-17A-BV421 (BL168, Biolegend), and MIP-1β-PE (IC271P, R&D) as previously described (11 (link)). Samples were acquired using a customized LSRII flow cytometer (BD Biosciences) and analyzed using Winlist v7.0 (Verity Software House, Topsham, ME, USA). Absolute numbers of CD3, CD8, CD4 positive cells and CD8 memory subsets cells were calculated by using percentages obtained from flow cytometry analysis related to the absolute number of lymphocytes determined by routine blood count. Responses against S. Typhi were expressed as net percentage of positive cells (i.e., total percentage of positive cells in the presence of S. Typhi-infected targets minus percentage of positive cells in co-cultures with uninfected cells).
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