Patients taking benralizumab, dupilumab, or mepolizumab have lower postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 immunity
J Allergy Clin Immunol.
2024-06;
Martin C Runnstrom, Pedro A Lamothe, Caterina E Faliti, Narayanaiah Cheedarla, Alberto Moreno, Mehul S Suthar, Rishika Nahata, Mayuran Ravindran, Natalie S Haddad, Andrea Morrison-Porter, Hannah Quehl, Richard P Ramonell, Matthew Woodruff, Fabliha Anam, Rebeca Zhang, Colin Swenson, Carmen Polito, Wendy Neveu, Rahulkumar Patel, Natalia Smirnova, Doan C Nguyen, Caroline Kim, Ian Hentenaar, Shuya Kyu, Sabeena Usman, Thuy Ngo, Zhenxing Guo, Hao Wu, John L Daiss, Jiwon Park, Kelly E Manning, Bursha Wali, Madison L Ellis, Sunita Sharma, Fernando Holguin, Suneethamma Cheedarla, Andrew S Neish, John D Roback, Ignacio Sanz, F Eun-Hyung Lee
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background: Biologic therapies inhibiting the IL-4 or IL-5 pathways are very effective in the treatment of asthma and other related conditions. However, the cytokines IL-4 and IL-5 also play a role in the generation of adaptive immune responses. Although these biologics do not cause overt immunosuppression, their effect in primary severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) immunization has not been studied completely.
objective: Our aim was to evaluate the antibody and cellular immunity after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in patients on biologics (PoBs).
methods: Patients with severe asthma or atopic dermatitis who were taking benralizumab, dupilumab, or mepolizumab and had received the initial ... More
background: Biologic therapies inhibiting the IL-4 or IL-5 pathways are very effective in the treatment of asthma and other related conditions. However, the cytokines IL-4 and IL-5 also play a role in the generation of adaptive immune responses. Although these biologics do not cause overt immunosuppression, their effect in primary severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) immunization has not been studied completely.
objective: Our aim was to evaluate the antibody and cellular immunity after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in patients on biologics (PoBs).
methods: Patients with severe asthma or atopic dermatitis who were taking benralizumab, dupilumab, or mepolizumab and had received the initial dose of the 2-dose adult SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine were enrolled in a prospective, observational study. As our control group, we used a cohort of immunologically healthy subjects (with no significant immunosuppression) who were not taking biologics (NBs). We used a multiplexed immunoassay to measure antibody levels, neutralization assays to assess antibody function, and flow cytometry to quantitate Spike-specific lymphocytes.
results: We analyzed blood from 57 patients in the PoB group and 46 control subjects from the NB group. The patients in the PoB group had lower levels of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, pseudovirus neutralization, live virus neutralization, and frequencies of Spike-specific B and CD8 T cells at 6 months after vaccination. In subgroup analyses, patients with asthma who were taking biologics had significantly lower pseudovirus neutralization than did subjects with asthma who were not taking biologics.
conclusions: The patients in the PoB group had reduced SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody titers, neutralizing activity, and virus-specific B- and CD8 T-cell counts. These results have implications when considering development of a more individualized immunization strategy in patients who receive biologic medications blocking IL-4 or IL-5 pathways.
Asthma biologics, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, antibody neutralization, benralizumab, dupilumab, mRNA vaccines, memory B cells, memory T cells, mepolizumab