Trial reportInfluenza and other respiratory viruses2023
Type I interferon autoantibodies in hospitalized patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome and association with outcomes and treatment effect of interferon beta-1b in MIRACLE clinical trial.
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- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Anti-interferon Auto-antibodies in Infectious Diseases.Journal of clinical immunology · 2026Pooled it
- Type I interferon autoantibodies in hospitalized patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome and association with outcomes and treatment effect of interferon beta-1b in MIRACLE clinical trial.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2023Trial
- High prevalence of autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in Japanese patients with hepatitis C.Journal of human immunity · 2026Article
- Prevalence of neutralizing autoantibodies against type I interferon in dengue patients.Journal of human immunity · 2026Article
- Autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons in older twin pairs: Low concordance.Journal of human immunity · 2026Article
- Highly neutralizing anti-IFN-ω autoantibodies underlie severe pediatric adenovirus infection.Journal of human immunity · 2026Article
- High risk of hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia in myasthenia gravis patients with type I IFN autoantibodies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Autoantibodies against type I interferons in patients with zoonotic H7N9 influenza: an observational case-control study.EBioMedicine · 2026Observational
- Affinity-matured B cell responses neutralizing type-I interferons underlie severe viral infections.Cell · 2026Article
- Toward a monogenic architecture of human infections: From 1996 to 2026.Journal of human immunity · 2026Review
- Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in 40% of patients with WNV encephalitis in seven new cohorts.Journal of human immunity · 2026Article
- High risk of hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia in myasthenia gravis patients with type I IFN autoantibodies.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Autoantibodies neutralizing type 1 interferons in two cohorts of people with HIV.Journal of human immunity · 2026Article
- Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in patients with fulminant herpes simplex virus hepatitis.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026Article
- Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in a fatal case of H5N1 avian influenza.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2026Article
- Auto-Abs against type I IFNs: Strong, common, and global determinants of severe arboviral diseases.Journal of human immunity · 2026Review
- Auto-antibodies neutralizing type I interferons in ~10% of Moroccan patients with life-threatening COVID-19.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Human interferon-ω: an underappreciated type I interferon.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- The seven enigmas of SARS-CoV-2: from the past to the future.Journal of human immunity · 2025Article
- Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs in 40% of patients with WNV encephalitis in seven new cohorts.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Type I interferons (IFNs) are essential antiviral cytokines induced upon respiratory exposure to coronaviruses. Defects in type I IFN signaling can result in severe disease upon exposure to respiratory viral infection and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Neutralizing autoantibodies (auto-Abs) to type I IFNs were reported as a risk factor for life-threatening COVID-19, but their presence has not been evaluated in patients with severe Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Methods: We evaluated the prevalence of type I IFN auto-Abs in a cohort of hospitalized patients with MERS who were enrolled in a placebo-controlled clinical trial for treatment with IFN-β1b and lopinavir-ritonavir (MIRACLE trial). Samples were tested for type I IFN auto-Abs using a multiplex particle-based assay. Results: Among the 62 enrolled patients, 15 (24.2%) were positive for immunoglobulin G auto-Abs for at least one subtype of type I IFNs. Auto-Abs positive patients were not different from auto-Abs negative patients in age, sex, or comorbidities. However, the majority (93.3%) of patients who were auto-Abs positive were critically ill and admitted to the ICU at the time of enrollment compared to 66% in the auto-Abs negative patients. The effect of treatment with IFN-β1b and lopinavir-ritonavir did not significantly differ between the two groups. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the presence of type I IFN auto-Abs in hospitalized patients with MERS.
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