Kinetics of humoral immune response over 17 months of COVID-19 pandemic in a large cohort of healthcare workers in Spain : the ProHEpiC-19 study

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BACKGROUND: Understanding the immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus is critical for efficient monitoring and control strategies. The ProHEpic-19 cohort provides a fine-grained description of the kinetics of antibodies after SARS-CoV-2 infection with an exceptional resolution over 17 months.

METHODS: We established a cohort of 769 healthcare workers including healthy and infected with SARS-CoV-2 in northern Barcelona to determine the kinetics of the IgM against the nucleocapsid (N) and the IgG against the N and spike (S) of SARS-CoV-2 in infected healthcare workers. The study period was from 5 May 2020 to 11 November 2021.We used non-linear mixed models to investigate the kinetics of IgG and IgM measured at nine time points over 17 months from the date of diagnosis. The model included factors of time, gender, and disease severity (asymptomatic, mild-moderate, severe-critical) to assess their effects and their interactions.

FINDINGS: 474 of the 769 participants (61.6%) became infected with SARS-CoV-2. Significant effects of gender and disease severity were found for the levels of all three antibodies. Median IgM(N) levels were already below the positivity threshold in patients with asymptomatic and mild-moderate disease at day 270 after the diagnosis, while IgG(N and S) levels remained positive at least until days 450 and 270, respectively. Kinetic modelling showed a general rise in both IgM(N) and IgG(N) levels up to day 30, followed by a decay with a rate depending on disease severity. IgG(S) levels remained relatively constant from day 15 over time.

INTERPRETATION: IgM(N) and IgG(N, S) SARS-CoV-2 antibodies showed a heterogeneous kinetics over the 17 months. Only the IgG(S) showed a stable increase, and the levels and the kinetics of antibodies varied according to disease severity. The kinetics of IgM and IgG observed over a year also varied by clinical spectrum can be very useful for public health policies around vaccination criteria in adult population.

FUNDING: Regional Ministry of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Call COVID19-PoC SLT16_04; NCT04885478).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

BMC infectious diseases - 22(2022), 1 vom: 03. Sept., Seite 721

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Violán, Concepción [VerfasserIn]
Torán-Monserrat, Pere [VerfasserIn]
Quirant, Bibiana [VerfasserIn]
Lamonja-Vicente, Noemi [VerfasserIn]
Carrasco-Ribelles, Lucía A [VerfasserIn]
Chacón, Carla [VerfasserIn]
Manresa-Dominguez, Josep Maria [VerfasserIn]
Ramos-Roure, Francesc [VerfasserIn]
Dacosta-Aguayo, Rosalia [VerfasserIn]
Palacios-Fernández, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Roso-Llorach, Albert [VerfasserIn]
Pujol, Aleix [VerfasserIn]
Ouchi, Dan [VerfasserIn]
Monteagudo, Mónica [VerfasserIn]
Montero-Alia, Pilar [VerfasserIn]
Garcia-Sierra, Rosa [VerfasserIn]
Arméstar, Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Doladé, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Prat, Nuria [VerfasserIn]
Bonet, Josep Maria [VerfasserIn]
Clotet, Bonaventura [VerfasserIn]
Blanco, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Boigues-Pons, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Moreno-Millán, Nemesio [VerfasserIn]
Prado, Julia G [VerfasserIn]
Cáceres, Eva María Martínez [VerfasserIn]
ProHEpiC-19 study [VerfasserIn]
Garcia, Marta Soldevilla [Sonstige Person]
Roldan, Ester Moral [Sonstige Person]
Costa, Magda Alemany [Sonstige Person]
Ortega, Eva Olivares [Sonstige Person]
Camacho, Alba Pachón [Sonstige Person]
Devesa, Marta Bujalance [Sonstige Person]
Espinoza, Mariella Soto [Sonstige Person]
Palma, Antonio Negrete [Sonstige Person]
de San José, Mariana Martinez [Sonstige Person]
Varas, Ester Lucas [Sonstige Person]
Perich, Ester Badia [Sonstige Person]
Rodriguez, Mónica Piña [Sonstige Person]
Graells, Elena Domenech [Sonstige Person]
Gabriel, Eduard Moreno [Sonstige Person]
Cintas, Victòria Sabaté [Sonstige Person]
González, Mª Jose Argerich [Sonstige Person]
Duran, Asumció Vazquez [Sonstige Person]
Roca, Alex Ortega [Sonstige Person]
Pradells, Anna Devesa [Sonstige Person]
Kielpilanen, Athina [Sonstige Person]
Lombarte, Oscar Blanch [Sonstige Person]
Lopez, Miguel Angel Marin [Sonstige Person]
Carabelli, Julieta [Sonstige Person]
Poderós, Ruth Peña [Sonstige Person]
Moyano, Esther Jimenez [Sonstige Person]
Segura, Eulalia Grau [Sonstige Person]
Rosa, Laia Bernard [Sonstige Person]
Caballero, Raul Pérez [Sonstige Person]
Lozano, Felipe Rodriguez [Sonstige Person]
Rivas, Gema Fernández [Sonstige Person]
Abos, Sonia Molinos [Sonstige Person]
de Osaba, Jaume Barallat Martinez [Sonstige Person]
Trigo, Lorena Tello [Sonstige Person]
Cano, Cristina Perez [Sonstige Person]
Aguilar, Juan Matllo [Sonstige Person]
Martínez, Anabel López [Sonstige Person]
Iglesias, Inmaculada Agüera [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Antibodies
Antibodies, Viral
COVID-19
Clinical spectrum
Cohort
Health care workers
Humoral immunity
IgG
IgM
Immunoglobulin G
Immunoglobulin M
Journal Article
Kinetics
Non-linear mixed models
SARS-CoV-2
Seroprevalence

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.09.2022

Date Revised 10.09.2022

published: Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04885478

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12879-022-07696-6

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345747712