Strong immunogenicity of heterologous prime-boost immunizations with the experimental vaccine GRAd-COV2 and BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1-nCOV19

Autor: Chiara Agrati, Stefania Capone, Concetta Castilletti, Eleonora Cimini, Giulia Matusali, Silvia Meschi, Eleonora Tartaglia, Roberto Camerini, Simone Lanini, Stefano Milleri, Stefano Colloca, Alessandra Vitelli, Antonella Folgori
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: npj Vaccines, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2059-0105
DOI: 10.1038/s41541-021-00394-5
Popis: Abstract Here we report on the humoral and cellular immune response in eight volunteers who autonomously chose to adhere to the Italian national COVID-19 vaccination campaign more than 3 months after receiving a single-administration GRAd-COV2 vaccine candidate in the context of the phase-1 clinical trial. We observed a clear boost of both binding/neutralizing antibodies as well as T-cell responses upon receipt of the heterologous BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1-nCOV19 vaccines. These results, despite the limitation of the small sample size, support the concept that a single dose of an adenoviral vaccine may represent an ideal tool to effectively prime a balanced immune response, which can be boosted to high levels by a single dose of a different vaccine platform.
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