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. 2022 Jul 4;9:910987. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.910987

TABLE 1.

Humoral and T-cellular response rates 6 months (T3) after the 1st vaccination.

Variable Category 3x BNT162b2 2x BNT162b2, 1x 1273 2x 1273, 1x BNT162b2 3x 1273 2x mRNA, 1x vector p_Value 2x mRNA
Patient number N 57 22 16 63 8 67
Humoral response
IgG-Ab or IgA-Ab SpikeS1 positive n of total n (%) 17/57 (29.8%) 8/22 (36.4%) 8/16 (50%) 31/63 (49.2%) 1/8 (12.5%) 0.092 11/67 (16.4%)
IgG-Ab Spike S1 positive n of total n (%) 12/57 (21.1%) 6/22 (27.3%) 7/16 (43.8%) 29/63 (46%) 1/8 (12.5%) 0.025 10/67 (14.9%)
RBD positive n of total n (%) 11/57 (19.3%) 5/22 (22.7%) 3/16 (18.8%) 20/63 (31.7%) 1/8 (12.5%) 0.464 6/67 (9%)
IgA-Ab SpikeS1 positive n of total n (%) 12/57 (21.1%) 6/22 (27.3%) 4/16 (25%) 21/63 (33.3%) 1/8 (12.5%) 0.524 7/67 (10.4%)
Interferon-γ release assay (IGRA)—T-cellular response
IGRA positive n of total n (%) 1/16 (6.2%) 0/7 (0%) 0/0 (0%) 6/16 (37.5%) 1/7 (14.3%) 0.06 5/25 (20%)

Humoral vaccination responses were assessed as positive when de novo production of the anti-SpikeS1 IgG and (anti-SpikeS1 IgA or IgG endpoint of the original DIA-Vacc study)/or IgA or IgG protein or anti-RBD IgG subunit was above positivity level. A positive T-cellular response to vaccination as assessed by interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) turned from a negative result on T0 to positive on T3, respectively (≥100 mIU/ml, as being recommended by the manufacturers). For this evaluation, all participants with asymptomatic* or documented symptomatic** COVID-19 disease before and during vaccination up to T3 (6 months) were excluded.

BNT162b2 = BNT162b2-mRNA or tozinameran or brand name Comirnaty; 1273 = 1273-mRNA or brand name Spikevax.

*Asymptomatic COVID-19 disease definition–neither knowledge nor symptoms of COVID-19 disease, but IgG-antibody reaction to nucleocapsid (T0, T2, or T3) or the Spike protein subunit S1 (only T0) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is positive.

**Symptomatic COVID-19 disease definition–SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive patients with clinical symptoms.