Comparative Effectiveness of Coronavirus Vaccine in Preventing Breakthrough Infections among Vaccinated Persons Infected with Delta and Alpha Variants

We developed a case-case study to compare mRNA vaccine effectiveness against Delta versus Alpha coronavirus variants. We used data on 2,097 case-patients with PCR-positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections reported in Portugal during May-July 2021. We estimated the odds of vaccine breakthrough infection in Delta-infected versus Alpha-infected patients by using conditional logistic regression adjusted for age group and sex and matched by the week of diagnosis. We compared reverse-transcription PCR cycle threshold values by vaccination status and variant as an indirect measure of viral load. We found significantly higher odds of vaccine breakthrough infection in Delta-infected patients than in Alpha-infected patients (odds ratio 1.96 [95% CI 1.22-3.14]), suggesting lower effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines in preventing infection with the Delta variant. We estimated lower mean cycle threshold values for the Delta cases (mean difference -2.10 [95% CI -2.74 to -1.47]), suggesting higher infectiousness than the Alpha variant.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Emerging infectious diseases - 28(2022), 2 vom: 07. Feb., Seite 331-337

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kislaya, Irina [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Eduardo Freire [VerfasserIn]
Borges, Vítor [VerfasserIn]
Gomes, João P [VerfasserIn]
Sousa, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Almeida, José P [VerfasserIn]
Peralta-Santos, André [VerfasserIn]
Nunes, Baltazar [VerfasserIn]
PT-COVID-19 Group [VerfasserIn]
Machado, Ausenda [Sonstige Person]
Rodrigues, Ana Paula [Sonstige Person]
Dias, Carlos Matias [Sonstige Person]
Ferreira, Rita [Sonstige Person]
Isidro, Joana [Sonstige Person]
Pinto, Miguel [Sonstige Person]
Duarte, Sílvia [Sonstige Person]
Vieira, Luís [Sonstige Person]
Leite, Pedro Pinto [Sonstige Person]
Moreno, Joana [Sonstige Person]
Gonçalves, António Maia [Sonstige Person]
Menezes, Luís [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Alpha variant
Breakthrough infections
COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines
Coronavirus disease
Delta variant
Journal Article
MRNA Vaccines
MRNA vaccines
Portugal
Respiratory infections
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Vaccine-preventable diseases
Vaccines, Synthetic
Viruses
Zoonoses

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Date Completed 27.01.2022

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3201/eid2802.211789

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334128838