Use of a point-of-care test to rapidly assess levels of SARS-CoV-2 nasal neutralising antibodies in vaccines and breakthrough infected individuals

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Despite SARS-CoV-2 vaccines eliciting systemic neutralising antibodies (nAbs), breakthrough infections still regularly occur. Infection helps to generate mucosal immunity, possibly reducing disease transmission. Monitoring mucosal nAbs is predominantly restricted to lab-based assays, which have limited application to the public. In this multi-site study, we used lateral-flow surrogate neutralisation tests to measure mucosal and systemic nAbs in vaccinated and breakthrough infected individuals in Australia and Singapore. Using three lateral flow assays to detect SARS-CoV-2 nAbs, we demonstrated that nasal mucosal nAbs were present in 71.4 (95% CI 56.3-82.9%) to 85.7% (95% CI 71.8-93.7%) of individuals with breakthrough infection (positivity rate was dependent upon the type of test), whereas only 20.7 (95% CI 17.1-49.4%) to 34.5% (95% CI 19.8-52.7%) of vaccinated individuals without breakthrough infection had detectible nasal mucosal nAbs. Of the individuals with breakthrough infection, collective mucosal anti-S antibody detection in confirmatory assays was 92.9% (95% CI 80.3-98.2%) of samples, while 72.4% (95% CI 54.1-85.5%) of the vaccinated individuals who had not experienced a breakthrough infection were positive to anti-S antibody. All breakthrough infected individuals produced systemic anti-N antibodies; however, these antibodies were not detected in the nasal cavity. Mucosal immunity is likely to play a role in limiting the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and lateral flow neutralisation tests provide a rapid readout of mucosal nAbs at the point-of-care.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 13(2023), 1 vom: 20. Nov., Seite 20263

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Chee Wah [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Chuan Kok [VerfasserIn]
Prestedge, Jacqueline [VerfasserIn]
Batty, Mitchell [VerfasserIn]
Mah, Yun Yan [VerfasserIn]
O'Han, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lin-Fa [VerfasserIn]
Kilby, Dean [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Danielle E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Neutralizing
Antibodies, Viral
COVID-19 Vaccines
Journal Article
Vaccines

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Date Completed 22.11.2023

Date Revised 19.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-023-47613-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36477066X