Background: The ComFluCOV trial tested the safety and immunogenicity of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines co-administration. Binding and functional SARS-CoV2 anti-spike responses were measured using assays developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The three assays used to measure the immunogenicity outcomes are reported here and their performance compared to inform future vaccine development.
Methods: Adults aged over 18 were vaccinated with a COVID-19 and either an influenza vaccine or saline placebo. Serum sampled one month after vaccination was used to measure SARS-CoV2 anti-spike antibody concentrations using a commercial in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), a commercial fast throughput electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA) and a viral neutralisation assay (VNA). Geometric mean ratios were used to compare the response to COVID-19 with or without influenza vaccine with a threshold of 0.67 considered non-inferior. The relationship between the different assays was examined using Kendall rank correlations.
Results: The geometric mean ratios exceeded 0.67 using all assays for all COVID-19 and influenza vaccine combinations tested. Moderate rank correlations were found between the three assays.
Conclusion: All three assays confirmed that vaccine co-administration did not significantly impact on immunogenicity of any of the vaccines tested.
Trial Registration: ISRCTN14391248, registered on 17/03/2021.
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Nat Commun
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Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Antibody-mediated protection against pathogens is crucial to a healthy life. However, the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown that pre-existing comorbid conditions including kidney disease account for compromised humoral immunity to infections. Individuals with kidney disease are not only susceptible to infections but also exhibit poor vaccine-induced antibody response.
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Department of Family and Community Medicine, Riyadh Second Health Cluster, Riyadh, SAU.
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Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy Department, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia.
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Methods: We undertook a cross-sectional online study in Saudi Arabia from November 2023 to April 2024.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
October 2024
From the Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
Background: When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mitigation efforts waned, viral respiratory infections (VRIs) surged, potentially increasing the risk of postviral invasive bacterial infections (IBIs). We sought to evaluate the change in epidemiology and relationships between specific VRIs and IBIs [complicated pneumonia, complicated sinusitis and invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS)] over time using the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) dataset.
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Clin Immunol
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Department of Microbiology, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea; Lee Gil Ya Cancer and Diabetes Institute, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, GAIHST, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea; Korea mRNA Vaccine Initiative, Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
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