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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Low Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies during Systematic Antibody Screening and Serum Responses in Patients after COVID-19 in a German Transplant Center.

Mira Choi, Friederike Bachmann, Marcel Ganesh Naik, Wiebke Duettmann, Michael Duerr, Bianca Zukunft, Tatjana Schwarz, Victor Max Corman, Lutz Liefeldt, Klemens Budde and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Humoral response to SARS-CoV-2 is well preserved and symptom dependent in kidney transplant recipients.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mira ChoiDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0286-1491
Friederike BachmannDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Marcel Ganesh NaikDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6063-2806
Wiebke DuettmannDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0275-766X
Michael DuerrDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1432-421X
Bianca ZukunftDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Tatjana SchwarzInstitute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Victor Max CormanInstitute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3605-0136
Lutz LiefeldtDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Klemens BuddeDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Fabian HalleckDepartment of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 denotes a global health issue. Data regarding COVID-19 incidence in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) are sparse. From 19 March to 19 May 2020, we performed a systematic screening for COVID-19 in KTR. Tests included serum analysis for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies using S protein-based immunofluorescence, anti-SARS-CoV-2 S1 immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin A (IgA) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), and/or quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) from nasal-throat swabs. Outpatient serum samples from KTR with PCR confirmed COVID-19, and swab samples from recipients (+donors) undergoing kidney transplantation were analyzed. Out of 223 samples from outpatients, 13 patients were positive with solely anti-SARS-CoV-2-IgA and 3 with both anti-IgA and anti-IgG. In total, 53 patients were symptomatic in the past, but positive results could be found in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. After an in depth analysis using immunofluorescence and neutralization tests in 2 KTR, recent COVID-19 infection remained highly suspicious. Apart from outpatient visits, only 5 out of 2044 KTR were symptomatic and tested positive via PCR, of which 4 recovered and one died. All patients showed seroconversion during the course of the disease. This study demonstrated a low seroprevalence in a German KTR cohort, and seroconversion of IgA and IgG after COVID-19 could be demonstrated. Effective containment strategies enabled us to continue our transplant program.

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antibody testingCOVID-19kidney transplantationSARS-CoV-2 serology

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PMID33114149
PMCPMC7690804
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