Innate and Adaptive Cell-Mediated Immune Responses to a COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in Young Children

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America..

Background: There is little information on cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in children. We studied adaptive and innate CMI in vaccinated children aged 6 to 60 months.

Methods: Blood obtained from participants in a randomized placebo-controlled trial of an mRNA vaccine before and 1 month after the first dose was used for antibody measurements and CMI (flow cytometry).

Results: We enrolled 29 children with a mean age of 28.5 months (SD, 15.7). Antibody studies revealed that 10 participants were infected with SARS-CoV-2 prevaccination. Ex vivo stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with SARS-CoV-2 spike peptides showed significant increases pre- to postimmunization of activated conventional CD4+ and γδ T cells, natural killer cells, monocytes, and conventional dendritic cells but not mucosa-associated innate T cells. Conventional T-cell, monocyte, and conventional dendritic cell responses in children were higher immediately after vaccination than after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The fold increase in CMI pre- to postvaccination did not differ between children previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and those uninfected.

Conclusions: Children aged 6 to 60 months who were vaccinated with a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine developed robust CMI responses, including adaptive and innate immunity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Open forum infectious diseases - 10(2023), 12 vom: 30. Dez., Seite ofad608

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Weinberg, Adriana [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Garth, Krystle [VerfasserIn]
Hsieh, Elena W Y [VerfasserIn]
Kedl, Ross [VerfasserIn]
Weiskopf, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Cassaday, Mattie [VerfasserIn]
Rester, Cody [VerfasserIn]
Cabrera-Martinez, Berenice [VerfasserIn]
Baxter, Ryan M [VerfasserIn]
Levin, Myron J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
Cell-mediated immunity
Children
Journal Article
SARS-CoV-2 infection
Trained immunity

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Date Revised 10.02.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ofid/ofad608

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NLM365977136