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Riding the Omicron BA.5 Wave: Improved Humoral Response after Vaccination with Bivalent Omicron BA.4-5-Adapted mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients.

Eugen Ovcar, Sammy Patyna, Niko Kohmer, Elisabeth Heckel-Kratz, Sandra Ciesek, Holger F Rabenau, Ingeborg A Hauser, Kirsten de Groot

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Article in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eugen OvcarDepartment of Internal Medicine 4, Nephrology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3825-313X
Sammy PatynaDepartment of Internal Medicine 4, Nephrology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7045-7696
Niko KohmerInstitute for Medical Virology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5458-1467
Elisabeth Heckel-KratzKfH Kuratorium for Dialysis and Transplantation, 64521 Gross-Gerau, Germany.
Sandra CiesekInstitute for Medical Virology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1802-7565
Holger F RabenauInstitute for Medical Virology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9394-2176
Ingeborg A HauserDepartment of Internal Medicine 4, Nephrology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Kirsten de GrootKfH Kuratorium for Dialysis and Transplantation, 63069 Offenbach am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6100-2403
Goethe University Frankfurt · DEKfH Kuratorium für Dialyse und Nierentransplantation · DE

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patient donation for research purposes
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hemodialysis patients faced an excess morbidity and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the effect of second-generation mRNA vaccines against Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants of SARS-CoV-2 on humoral immunity. The study population comprised 66 adult hemodialysis patients who have encountered four SARS-CoV-2 antigen contacts through vaccination or infection. We assessed their humoral response using an anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor binding domain IgG antibody assay (S-RBD-ab), measuring neutralizing antibodies against ancestral strain of SARS-CoV-2, Delta, and Omicron in a surrogate virus neutralization test (SVNT), and specifically against BA.5 in a plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) before and four weeks after vaccination with Comirnaty Original/Omicron BA.4-5. During the following six months, SARS-CoV-2 infections and symptom severity were documented. The bivalent mRNA vaccine led to a 7.6-fold increase in S-RBD-ab levels and an augmented inhibition of the Omicron variant in SVNT by 35% (median). Seroconversion in the Omicron BA.5-specific PRNT was attained by in 78.4% of previously negative patients (29/37). Levels of S-RBD-ab correlated with inhibition in the Omicron-specific SVNT and neutralization titers in the BA.5-PRNT. Eleven SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred in the six-month follow-up, none of which took a life-threatening course. The bivalent mRNA vaccine improved the SARS-CoV-2 virus variant-specific humoral immunity in chronic hemodialysis patients. Measurement of S-RBD-ab can be used in hemodialysis patients to estimate their humoral immunity status against Omicron BA.5.

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dialysishumoral responseOmicronSARS-CoV-2vaccination

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PMID37766105
PMCPMC10537021
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