Diminishing Immune Responses against Variants of Concern in Dialysis Patients 4 Months after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination
Autor: | Alex Dulovic, Monika Strengert, Gema Morillas Ramos, Matthias Becker, Johanna Griesbaum, Daniel Junker, Karsten Lürken, Andrea Beigel, Eike Wrenger, Gerhard Lonnemann, Anne Cossmann, Metodi V. Stankov, Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka, Philipp D. Kaiser, Bjoern Traenkle, Ulrich Rothbauer, Gérard Krause, Nicole Schneiderhan-Marra, Georg M.N. Behrens |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Zdroj: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 28, Iss 4, Pp 743-750 (2022) |
Druh dokumentu: | article |
ISSN: | 1080-6040 1080-6059 |
DOI: | 10.3201/eid2804.211907 |
Popis: | Patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis were among the first to receive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations because of their increased risk for severe coronavirus disease and high case-fatality rates. By using a previously reported cohort from Germany of at-risk hemodialysis patients and healthy donors, where antibody responses were examined 3 weeks after the second vaccination, we assessed systemic cellular and humoral immune responses in serum and saliva 4 months after vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine using an interferon-γ release assay and multiplex-based IgG measurements. We further compared neutralization capacity of vaccination-induced IgG against 4 SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta) by angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor-binding domain competition assay. Sixteen weeks after second vaccination, compared with 3 weeks after, cellular and humoral responses against the original SARS-CoV-2 isolate and variants of concern were substantially reduced. Some dialysis patients even had no detectable B- or T-cell responses. |
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