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. 2021 Dec 14;11(12):202. doi: 10.1038/s41408-021-00594-1

Fig. 1. Study design.

Fig. 1

A Peripheral blood and serum from 83 patients with hematological malignancies and 102 health care practitioners (HCP) were analyzed. B Antibody response at day 7 after the second-dose vaccination was measured using a CE-IVD serological SARS-CoV-2 multiplex bead-based flow cytometry immunoassay. It allows the simultaneous and quantitative detection of specific IgM, IgG, and IgA antibodies to four different antigens present in serum: (1) the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the S-glycoprotein; (2) the stable trimer of the spicule (S) glycoprotein; (3) the nucleocapsid (N) protein; and (4) the main virus protease (Mpro). Detection of antibodies against the N and Mpro antigens allows the identification of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 prior or during vaccination. C Immune profiling of hematological patients and HCP prior vaccination was performed using multidimensional and computational flow cytometry. A total of 59 immune cell types were systematically measured in peripheral blood, including basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils, antigen-presenting cells (APC) and lymphocytes. D APC were sub-clustered into classical, intermediate, SLAN− and SLAN+ non-classical monocytes, as well as plasmacytoid and myeloid dendritic cells (pDC and mDC, respectively). E Sub-clustering of T cells into 32 subsets related to antigen-dependent differentiation, as well as activation and exhaustion phenotypes in helper and cytotoxic compartments. F Sub-clustering of B cells into 18 subsets related to antigen-dependent differentiation. CM, central memory; EM, effector memory; TEMRA, effector memory T cells re-expressing CD45RA; Tfh, follicular helper T cells; Treg, regulatory T cells; CPCs, circulating plasma cells.