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Volume 25, Issue 11, 18 November 2022, 105455
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Kinetics of immune responses elicited after three mRNA COVID-19 vaccine doses in predominantly antibody-deficient individuals

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Highlights

  • PAD individuals mount heterogeneous immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination

  • These responses should be monitored to know if additional vaccine doses are needed

  • A booster dose increased humoral responses but had limited effect on non-responders

  • COVID-19 vaccination induced T-cell responses in most PAD subjects

Summary

Mass vaccination campaigns reduced COVID-19 incidence and severity. Here, we evaluated the immune responses developed in SARS-CoV-2-uninfected patients with predominantly antibody-deficiencies (PAD) after three mRNA-1273 vaccine doses. PAD patients were classified based on their immunodeficiency: unclassified primary antibody-deficiency (unPAD, n = 9), common variable immunodeficiency (CVID, n = 12), combined immunodeficiency (CID, n = 1), and thymoma with immunodeficiency (TID, n = 1). unPAD patients and healthy controls (HCs, n = 10) developed similar vaccine-induced humoral responses after two doses. However, CVID patients showed reduced binding and neutralizing titers compared to HCs. Of interest, these PAD groups showed lower levels of Spike-specific IFN-γ-producing cells. CVID individuals also presented diminished CD8+T cells. CID and TID patients developed cellular but not humoral responses. Although the third vaccine dose boosted humoral responses in most PAD patients, it had limited effect on expanding cellular immunity. Vaccine-induced immune responses in PAD individuals are heterogeneous, and should be immunomonitored to define a personalized therapeutic strategies.

Subject areas

Immunology
Virology
Immune response

Data and code availability

  • All data reported in this article will be shared by the lead contact on request.

  • This article does not report original code.

  • Any additional information required to reanalyze the data reported in this article is available from the lead contact on request.

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