Academic Department of Pediatrics (DPUO), Research Unit of Clinical Immunology and Vaccinology, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Rome, Italy.
Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Front Immunol. 2021 Oct 4;12:727850. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.727850. eCollection 2021.
Mass SARS-Cov-2 vaccination campaign represents the only strategy to defeat the global pandemic we are facing. Immunocompromised patients represent a vulnerable population at high risk of developing severe COVID-19 and thus should be prioritized in the vaccination programs and in the study of the vaccine efficacy. Nevertheless, most data on efficacy and safety of the available vaccines derive from trials conducted on healthy individuals; hence, studies on immunogenicity of SARS-CoV2 vaccines in such populations are deeply needed. Here, we perform an observational longitudinal study analyzing the humoral and cellular response following the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in a cohort of patients affected by inborn errors of immunity (IEI) compared to healthy controls (HC). We show that both IEI and HC groups experienced a significant increase in anti-SARS-CoV-2 Abs 1 week after the second scheduled dose as well as an overall statistically significant expansion of the Ag-specific CD4+CD40L+ T cells in both HC and IEI. Five IEI patients did not develop any specific CD4+CD40L+ T cellular response, with one of these patients unable to also mount any humoral response. These data raise immunologic concerns about using Ab response as a sole metric of protective immunity following vaccination for SARS-CoV-2. Taken together, these findings suggest that evaluation of vaccine-induced immunity in this subpopulation should also include quantification of Ag-specific T cells.
大规模 SARS-CoV-2 疫苗接种活动代表着战胜我们所面临的全球大流行的唯一策略。免疫功能低下的患者是罹患严重 COVID-19 的高危人群,因此应在疫苗接种计划和疫苗疗效研究中优先考虑。然而,大多数关于现有疫苗的有效性和安全性的数据均来自于在健康个体中进行的试验;因此,非常需要研究此类人群中 SARS-CoV2 疫苗的免疫原性。在这里,我们进行了一项观察性纵向研究,分析了与健康对照(HC)相比,在一组患有先天性免疫缺陷(IEI)的患者中,接种 BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 疫苗后的体液和细胞反应。我们发现,IEI 和 HC 两组在第二次预定剂量后一周内均经历了抗 SARS-CoV-2 Abs 的显著增加,并且在 HC 和 IEI 中,Ag 特异性 CD4+CD40L+T 细胞总体上均有统计学意义的扩张。五名 IEI 患者未产生任何特定的 CD4+CD40L+T 细胞反应,其中一名患者也无法产生任何体液反应。这些数据对将抗体反应作为接种 SARS-CoV-2 疫苗后保护性免疫的唯一指标提出了免疫学方面的担忧。总之,这些发现表明,应包括定量评估 Ag 特异性 T 细胞,以评估该亚群中疫苗诱导的免疫。
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