Franchini Massimo, Focosi Daniele
Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, Carlo Poma Hospital, 46100 Mantua, Italy.
North-Western Tuscany Blood Bank, Pisa University Hospital, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Life (Basel). 2024 Feb 1;14(2):214. doi: 10.3390/life14020214.
Since late 2019, the new SARS-CoV-2 virus belonging to the family has been responsible for COVID-19 pandemic, a severe acute respiratory syndrome. Several antiviral therapies, mostly derived from previous epidemics, were initially repurposed to fight this not rarely life-threatening respiratory illness. Among them, however, the only specific antibody-based therapy available against SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first year of the pandemic was represented by COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP). CCP, collected from recovered individuals, contains high levels of polyclonal antibodies of different subclasses able to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 infection. Tens of randomized controlled trials have been conducted during the last three years of the pandemic to evaluate the safety and the clinical efficacy of CCP in both hospitalized and ambulatory COVID-19 patients, whose main results will be summarized in this narrative review. In addition, we will present the current knowledge on the development of anti-SARS-CoV-2 hyperimmune polyclonal immunoglobulins.
自2019年末以来,属于该病毒家族的新型严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)引发了新冠疫情。最初,几种主要源自以往疫情的抗病毒疗法被重新用于对抗这种往往危及生命的呼吸道疾病。然而,在疫情的第一年,其中唯一可用的针对SARS-CoV-2感染的特异性抗体疗法是新冠康复期血浆(CCP)。从康复个体采集的CCP含有高水平的不同亚类多克隆抗体,能够中和SARS-CoV-2感染。在疫情的过去三年里,已经进行了数十项随机对照试验,以评估CCP在住院和门诊新冠患者中的安全性和临床疗效,本叙述性综述将总结其主要结果。此外,我们将介绍关于抗SARS-CoV-2超免疫多克隆免疫球蛋白研发的当前知识。