Leviev Cardiothoracic and Vascular Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Leviev Cardiothoracic and Vascular Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023 Aug;42(8):1054-1058. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.03.016. Epub 2023 Apr 19.
In 2022, the antigenically divergent SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants (BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, BA.5) outcompeted previous variants and continued to cause substantial numbers of illnesses and deaths. We evaluated the safety and immunogenicity of the bivalent original/omicron BA.4/BA.5 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine administered as a fifth dose to heart transplant recipients (HTxRs). We compared neutralization (using live virus assays) of SARS-CoV-2-infected cells in serum samples from HTxRs who had previously received 4 doses of the monovalent BNT162b2 vaccine with samples from HTxRs with breakthrough infection after 4 monovalent BNT162b2 doses. The fifth vaccination induced high neutralization efficiency against the wild-type virus and omicron BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5 variants, with significantly higher neutralization efficiency being induced in HTxRs with breakthrough infection than in those without. Neutralizing titers in those with breakthrough infection were sustained above the level induced by the fifth dose in the uninfected. We conclude that the fifth bivalent vaccine is immunogenic, including to variants, with higher vaccine immunogenicity conferred by breakthrough infection. Nevertheless, the clinical protection conferred by the fifth dose is yet to be determined. The sustained neutralization responses in those with breakthrough infection support the notion of delaying booster in those with natural breakthrough infection.
2022 年,抗原差异较大的 SARS-CoV-2 奥密克戎变异株(BA.1、BA.2、BA.4、BA.5)取代了之前的变异株,并持续导致大量疾病和死亡。我们评估了第五剂二价原始/奥密克戎 BA.4/BA.5 辉瑞/生物科技疫苗用于心脏移植受者(HTxR)的安全性和免疫原性。我们比较了先前接受过 4 剂单价 BNT162b2 疫苗的 HTxR 血清样本中的中和作用(使用活病毒测定)与 4 剂单价 BNT162b2 后发生突破性感染的 HTxR 血清样本中的中和作用。第五次接种诱导了针对野生型病毒和奥密克戎 BA.1、BA.2、BA.4 和 BA.5 变异株的高中和效率,在发生突破性感染的 HTxR 中诱导的中和效率明显高于未发生感染的 HTxR。突破性感染患者的中和滴度持续高于未感染者第五次接种诱导的水平。我们得出结论,第五剂二价疫苗具有免疫原性,包括对变异株的免疫原性,突破性感染可提高疫苗的免疫原性。然而,第五剂疫苗的临床保护作用仍有待确定。突破性感染患者的持续中和反应支持在自然突破性感染患者中延迟加强针的观点。
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