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ArticleCancers2022

Low Spike Antibody Levels and Impaired BA.4/5 Neutralization in Patients with Multiple Myeloma or Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia after BNT162b2 Booster Vaccination.

Margherita Rosati, Evangelos Terpos, Jenifer Bear, Robert Burns, Santhi Devasundaram, Ioannis Ntanasis-Stathopoulos, Maria Gavriatopoulou, Efstathios Kastritis, Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos, George N Pavlakis and 1 more

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Margherita RosatiHuman Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Evangelos TerposDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 117 27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5133-1422
Jenifer BearHuman Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Robert BurnsHuman Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Santhi DevasundaramHuman Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2803-7118
Ioannis Ntanasis-StathopoulosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 117 27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6328-9783
Maria GavriatopoulouDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 117 27 Athens, Greece.
Efstathios KastritisDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 117 27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8191-5832
Meletios-Athanasios DimopoulosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 117 27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8990-3254
George N PavlakisHuman Retrovirus Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4027-4036
Barbara K FelberHuman Retrovirus Pathogenesis Section, Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

NCI NIH HHS Intramural Funding
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with symptomatic monoclonal gammopathies have impaired humoral responses to COVID-19 vaccination. Their ability to recognize SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants is of concern. We compared the response to BNT162b2 mRNA vaccinations of patients with multiple myeloma (MM, n = 60) or Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM, n = 20) with healthy vaccine recipients (n = 37). Patient cohorts on active therapy affecting B cell development had impaired binding and neutralizing antibody (NAb) response rate and magnitude, including several patients lacking responses, even after a 3rd vaccine dose, whereas non-B cell depleting therapies had a lesser effect. In contrast, MM and WM cohorts off-therapy showed increased NAb with a broad response range. ELISA Spike-Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) Ab titers in healthy vaccine recipients and patient cohorts were good predictors of the ability to neutralize not only the original WA1 but also the most divergent Omicron variants BA.4/5. Compared to WA1, significantly lower NAb responses to BA.4/5 were found in all patient cohorts on-therapy. In contrast, the MM and WM cohorts off-therapy showed a higher probability to neutralize BA.4/5 after the 3rd vaccination. Overall, the boost in NAb after the 3rd dose suggests that repeat vaccination of MM and WM patients is beneficial even under active therapy.

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BA.1BA.2BA.4/5COVID vaccinemultiple myelomaneutralizationWA1Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia

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PMID36497296
PMCPMC9737406
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