Humoral and cellular responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with B-cell haematological malignancies improve with successive vaccination

© 2023 The Authors. British Journal of Haematology published by British Society for Haematology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

Patients with haematological malignancies are more likely to have poor responses to vaccination. Here we provide detailed analysis of the humoral and cellular responses to COVID-19 vaccination in 69 patients with B-cell malignancies. Measurement of anti-spike IgG in serum demonstrated a low seroconversion rate with 27.1% and 46.8% of patients seroconverting after the first and second doses of vaccine, respectively. In vitro pseudoneutralisation assays demonstrated a poor neutralising response, with 12.5% and 29.5% of patients producing a measurable neutralising titre after the first and second doses, respectively. A third dose increased seropositivity to 54.3% and neutralisation to 51.5%, while a fourth dose further increased both seropositivity and neutralisation to 87.9%. Neutralisation titres post-fourth dose showed a positive correlation with the size of the B-cell population measured by flow cytometry, suggesting an improved response correlating with recovery of the B-cell compartment after B-cell depletion treatments. In contrast, interferon gamma ELISpot analysis showed a largely intact T-cell response, with the percentage of patients producing a measurable response boosted by the second dose to 75.5%. This response was maintained thereafter, with only a small increase following the third and fourth doses, irrespective of the serological response at these timepoints.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:202

Enthalten in:

British journal of haematology - 202(2023), 6 vom: 30. Sept., Seite 1091-1103

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pinder, Christopher L [VerfasserIn]
Jankovic, Dylan [VerfasserIn]
Fox, Thomas A [VerfasserIn]
Kirkwood, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Enfield, Louise [VerfasserIn]
Alrubayyi, Aljawharah [VerfasserIn]
Touizer, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Ford, Rosemarie [VerfasserIn]
Pocock, Rachael [VerfasserIn]
Shin, Jin-Sup [VerfasserIn]
Ziegler, Joseph [VerfasserIn]
Thomson, Kirsty J [VerfasserIn]
Ardeshna, Kirit M [VerfasserIn]
Peppa, Dimitra [VerfasserIn]
McCoy, Laura E [VerfasserIn]
Morris, Emma C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies
Antibodies, Viral
B cells
COVID-19 Vaccines
Haematological malignancies
Infection
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
T cells
Vaccines

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Date Completed 12.09.2023

Date Revised 22.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bjh.18962

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359038077