One-Year Post-Vaccination Longitudinal Follow-Up of Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 Anti-Spike Total Antibodies in Health Care Professionals and Evaluation of Correlation with Surrogate Neutralization Test

Numerous vaccines have been generated to decrease the morbidity and mortality of COVID-19. This study aims to evaluate the immunogenicity of the heterologous boosts by BioNTech against homologous boosts by CoronaVac at three-month intervals in two health care worker (HCW) cohorts, with or without prior COVID-19, for one year post-vaccination. This is a prospective cohort study in which the humoral responses of 386 HCWs were followed-up longitudinally in six main groups according to their previous COVID-19 exposure and vaccination status. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike-RBD total antibody levels were measured and SARS-CoV-2 neutralization antibody (NAbs) responses against the ancestral Wuhan and the Omicron variant were evaluated comparatively using international standard serum for Wuhan and Omicron, as well as with the aid of a conversion tool. The anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike-RBD total Ab and Nab difference between with and without prior COVID-19, three months after two-dose primary vaccination with CoronaVac, was statistically significant (p = 0.001). In the subsequent follow-ups, this difference was not observed between the groups. Those previously infected (PI) and non-previously infected (NPI) groups receiving BioNTech as the third dose had higher anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike total Ab levels (14.2-fold and 17.4-fold, respectively, p = 0.001) and Nab responses (against Wuhan and Omicron) than those receiving CoronaVac. Ab responses after booster vaccination decreased significantly in all groups at the ninth-month follow-up (p < 0.05); however, Abs were still higher in all booster received groups than that in the primary vaccination. Abs were above the protective level at the twelfth-month measurement in the entire of the second BioNTech received group as the fourth dose of vaccination. In the one-year follow-up period, the increased incidence of COVID-19 in the groups vaccinated with two or three doses of CoronaVac compared with the groups vaccinated with BioNTech as a booster suggested that continuing the heterologous CoronaVac/BioNTech vaccination, revised according to current SARS-CoV-2 variants and with at least a six-month interval booster would be an effective and safe strategy for protection against COVID-19, particularly in health care workers.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 11(2023), 2 vom: 03. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tuyji Tok, Yesim [VerfasserIn]
Can Sarinoglu, Rabia [VerfasserIn]
Ordekci, Seyhan [VerfasserIn]
Yilmaz, Serife [VerfasserIn]
Ozcolpan, Gunes [VerfasserIn]
Bayram, Aysen [VerfasserIn]
Nohut, Okan Kadir [VerfasserIn]
Kocer, Ipek [VerfasserIn]
Hasdemir, Ufuk [VerfasserIn]
Kuskucu, Mert Ahmet [VerfasserIn]
Konukoglu, Dildar [VerfasserIn]
Gozalan, Aysegul [VerfasserIn]
Midilli, Kenan [VerfasserIn]
Celik, Gulden [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19
Heterologous
Inactivated
Journal Article
MRNA
Vaccine

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Date Revised 01.03.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines11020355

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353573213