SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses in patients with aggressive haematological malignancies

Abstract The development of antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 is an indicator of seroprevalence and may afford protection from infection. It has been presumed that antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 will be impaired in patients with aggressive haematological malignancy (PHM) due to underlying immunological dysfunction caused by malignancy or systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT), placing them at increased risk. Here we analysed longitudinal serum samples from ten hospitalised PHM with aggressive disease and on SACT, collected up to 103 days post-onset of COVID-19 symptoms. We found that the majority (8/9) of PHM with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection seroconverted and developed antibodies to the major SARS-CoV-2 antigens (S1 and N) with most (6/8) produced neutralising antibody responses. Furthermore, the dynamics of antibody responses were broadly similar to that reported for the general population, except for a possible delay to seroconversion. Our finding that PHM on SACT can make functional antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 has important implications for patient management and serological monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in high-risk groups..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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bioRxiv.org - (2020) vom: 19. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

O’Nions, J. [VerfasserIn]
Muir, L. [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, J. [VerfasserIn]
Rees-Spear, C. [VerfasserIn]
Rosa, A. [VerfasserIn]
Earl, C. [VerfasserIn]
Cherepanov, P. [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, R. [VerfasserIn]
Khwaja, A. [VerfasserIn]
Jolly, C. [VerfasserIn]
McCoy, L.E. [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2020.09.29.20202846

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XBI018861091