Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Department of Infectious Diseases, L. Sacco Hospital, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan, Italy.
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2023 Sep;39(9):495-499. doi: 10.1089/AID.2022.0132. Epub 2023 May 3.
At present, whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines can elicit robust humoral and cellular immune responses in people living with HIV (PLWH) is still controversial. We assessed humoral and cellular immune response after the administration of the BNT162b2-mRNA-vaccine in seven antiretroviral therapy-treated PLWH patients and in nine HIV-negative health care workers (PWOH) over a 3-month span of time from the first vaccine dose. The neutralizing activity against both the European and the Delta variants declined after 3 months equally in both PLWH and PWOH. The gene expression analysis of factors involved in the antiviral immune response did not show any significant difference between PLWH and PWOH; among circulating cytokines/chemokines, a progressive decline was observed in the mean values of IL-1β, IL-5, IL-6, IL-13, and IL-15 in both PLWH and PWOH. Conversely, the ratio between naive and terminally differentiated T-CD4 effector memory showed a reduction trend over time in PLWH. Our findings showed no significant differences in the ability to mount an immune response after the administration of two SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 doses in PLWH and PWOH. However, as BNT162b2 vaccinated PLWH display an early waning immunity in the T cell compartment, the administration of a booster dose may be necessary to maintain a SARS-CoV-2-specific immune response.
目前,关于严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2(SARS-CoV-2)疫苗能否在人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)感染者(PLWH)中引发强大的体液和细胞免疫反应仍存在争议。我们评估了 7 名接受抗逆转录病毒治疗的 PLWH 患者和 9 名 HIV 阴性医护人员(PWOH)在接种第一剂疫苗后 3 个月内对 BNT162b2-mRNA 疫苗的体液和细胞免疫反应。在 3 个月后,PLWH 和 PWOH 对欧洲和 Delta 变体的中和活性同等下降。抗病毒免疫反应相关因子的基因表达分析显示 PLWH 和 PWOH 之间没有任何显著差异;在循环细胞因子/趋化因子中,PLWH 和 PWOH 的 IL-1β、IL-5、IL-6、IL-13 和 IL-15 的平均值呈逐渐下降趋势。相反,PLWH 中的幼稚和终末分化 T-CD4 效应记忆的比值随着时间的推移呈下降趋势。我们的研究结果表明,PLWH 和 PWOH 接种两剂 SARS-CoV-2 mRNA BNT162b2 后,其免疫反应能力没有显著差异。然而,由于 BNT162b2 接种的 PLWH 在 T 细胞群中表现出早期免疫减弱,因此可能需要接种加强剂来维持 SARS-CoV-2 特异性免疫反应。