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  1. Article ; Online: The impact of viral mutations on recognition by SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells

    Thushan I. de Silva / Guihai Liu / Benjamin B. Lindsey / Danning Dong / Shona C. Moore / Nienyun Sharon Hsu / Dhruv Shah / Dannielle Wellington / Alexander J. Mentzer / Adrienn Angyal / Rebecca Brown / Matthew D. Parker / Zixi Ying / Xuan Yao / Lance Turtle / Susanna Dunachie / Mala K. Maini / Graham Ogg / Julian C. Knight /
    Yanchun Peng / Sarah L. Rowland-Jones / Tao Dong / David M. Aanensen / Khalil Abudahab / Helen Adams / Alexander Adams / Safiah Afifi / Dinesh Aggarwal / Shazaad S.Y. Ahmad / Louise Aigrain / Adela Alcolea-Medina / Nabil-Fareed Alikhan / Elias Allara / Roberto Amato / Tara Annett / Stephen Aplin / Cristina V. Ariani / Hibo Asad / Amy Ash / Paula Ashfield / Fiona Ashford / Laura Atkinson / Stephen W. Attwood / Cressida Auckland / Alp Aydin / David J. Baker / Paul Baker / Carlos E. Balcazar / Jonathan Ball / Jeffrey C. Barrett

    iScience, Vol 24, Iss 11, Pp 103353- (2021)

    2021  

    Abstract: Summary: We identify amino acid variants within dominant SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes by interrogating global sequence data. Several variants within nucleocapsid and ORF3a epitopes have arisen independently in multiple lineages and result in loss of ... ...

    Abstract Summary: We identify amino acid variants within dominant SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes by interrogating global sequence data. Several variants within nucleocapsid and ORF3a epitopes have arisen independently in multiple lineages and result in loss of recognition by epitope-specific T cells assessed by IFN-γ and cytotoxic killing assays. Complete loss of T cell responsiveness was seen due to Q213K in the A∗01:01-restricted CD8+ ORF3a epitope FTSDYYQLY207-215; due to P13L, P13S, and P13T in the B∗27:05-restricted CD8+ nucleocapsid epitope QRNAPRITF9-17; and due to T362I and P365S in the A∗03:01/A∗11:01-restricted CD8+ nucleocapsid epitope KTFPPTEPK361-369. CD8+ T cell lines unable to recognize variant epitopes have diverse T cell receptor repertoires. These data demonstrate the potential for T cell evasion and highlight the need for ongoing surveillance for variants capable of escaping T cell as well as humoral immunity.
    Keywords Phylogenetics ; Molecular biology ; Immunology ; Immune response ; Virology ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 570
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  2. Article ; Online: Effect of second booster vaccinations and prior infection against SARS-CoV-2 in the UK SIREN healthcare worker cohortResearch in context

    Peter D. Kirwan / Victoria J. Hall / Sarah Foulkes / Ashley D. Otter / Katie Munro / Dominic Sparkes / Anna Howells / Naomi Platt / Jonathan Broad / David Crossman / Chris Norman / Diane Corrigan / Christopher H. Jackson / Michelle Cole / Colin S. Brown / Ana Atti / Jasmin Islam / Anne M. Presanis / Andre Charlett /
    Daniela De Angelis / Susan Hopkins / Tracy Lewis / Steve Bain / Rebeccah Thomas / John Geen / Carla Pothecary / Sean Cutler / John Northfield / Cathy Price / Johanne Tomlinson / Sarah Knight / Emily Macnaughton / Ekaterina Watson / Rajeka Lazarus / Aaran Sinclair / Joanne Galliford / Bridgett Masunda / Tabitha Mahungu / Alison Rodger / Esther Hanison / Simon Warren / Swati Jain / Mariyam Mirfenderesky / Natasha Mahabir / Rowan Pritchard-Jones / Diane Wycherley / Claire Gabriel / Elijah Matovu / Philippa Bakker / Simantee Guha / S. Gormley / James Pethick / Georgina Butt / Stacey Pepper / Luke Bedford / Paul Ridley / Jane Democratis / Manjula Meda / Anu Chawla / Fran Westwell / Nagesh Kalakonda / Sheena Khanduri / Allison Doel / Sumita Pai / Christian Hacon / Davis Nwaka / Veronica Mendez Moro / A. Moody / Cressida Auckland / Stephanie Prince / Thushan de Silva / Helen Shulver / A. Shah / C. Jones / Banerjee Subhro-Osuji / Angela Houston / Tim Planche / Martin Booth / Christopher Duff / Jonnie Aeron-Thomas / Ray Chaudhuri / David Hilton / Hannah Jory / Zehra'a Al-Khafaji / Philippa Kemsley / Ruth Longfellow / David Boss / Simon Brake / Louise Coke / Ngozi Elumogo / Scott Latham / Chinari Subudhi / Ina Hoad / Claire Thomas / Nihil Chitalia / Tracy Edmunds / Helen Ashby / John Elliott / Beverley Wilkinson / Abby Rand / Catherine Thompson / K. Agwuh / Anna Grice / Kelly Moran / Vijayendra Waykar / Yvonne Lester / Lauren Sach / Kathryn Court / Nikki White / Clair Favager / Kyra Holliday / Jayne Harwood / Brendan Payne / Karen Burns / Lynda Fothergill / Alejandro Arenas-Pinto / Abigail Severn / Kerryanne Brown / Katherine Gray / Jane Dare / Qi Zheng / Kathryn Hollinshead / Robert Shorten / Alun Roebuck / Christopher Holmes / Martin Wiselka / Barzo Faris / Liane Marsh / Clare McAdam / Lisa Ditchfield / Zaman Qazzafi / G. Boyd / N. Wong / Sarah Brand / Jack Squires / John Ashcroft / Ismaelette Del Rosario / Joanne Howard / Emma Ward / Gemma Harrison / Joely Morgan / Claire Corless / Ruth Penn / Nick Wong / Manny Bagary / Nadezda Starkova / Mandy Beekes / Mandy Carnahan / Shivani Khan / Shekoo Mackay / Keneisha Lewis / Graham Pickard / Joy Dawson / Lauren Finlayson / Euan Cameron / Anne Todd / Sebastien Fagegaltier / Sally Mavin / Alexandra Cochrane / Andrew Gibson / Sam Donaldson / Kate Templeton / Martin Malcolm / Beth Smith / Devesh Dhasmana / Susan Fowler / Antonia Ho / Michael Murphy / Claire Beith / Manish Patel / Elizabeth Boyd / Val Irvine / Alison Grant / Rebecca Temple-Purcell / Clodagh Loughrey / Elinor Hanna / Frances Johnston / Angel Boulos / Fiona Thompson / Yuri Protaschik / Susan Regan / Tracy Donaghy / Maurice O'Kane / Omolola Akinbami / Paola Barbero / Tim Brooks / Meera Chand / Ferdinando Insalata / Palak Joshi / Anne-Marie O'Connell / Mary Ramsay / Ayoub Saei / Maria Zambon / Ezra Linley / Simon Tonge / Enemona Adaji / Omoyeni Adebiyi / Nick Andrews / Joanna Conneely / Paul Conneely / Angela Dunne / Simone Dyer / Hannah Emmett / Nipunadi Hettiarachchi / Nishanthan Kapirial / Jameel Khawam / Edward Monk / Sophie Russell / Andrew Taylor-Kerr / Jean Timeyin / Silvia D'Arcangelo / Cathy Rowe / Amanda Semper / Eileen Gallagher / Robert Kyffin / Lisa Cromey / Desmond Areghan / Jennifer Bishop / Melanie Dembinsky / Laura Dobbie / Josie Evans / David Goldberg / Lynne Haahr / Annelysse Jorgenson / Ayodeji Matuluko / Laura Naismith / Desy Nuryunarsih / Alexander Olaoye / Caitlin Plank / Lesley Price / Nicole Sergenson / Sally Stewart / Andrew Telfer / Jennifer Weir / Ellen De Lacy / Yvette Ellis / Susannah Froude / Guy Stevens / Linda Tyson / Susanna Dunachie / Paul Klenerman / Chris Duncan / Rebecca Payne / Lance Turtle / Alex Richter / Thushan De Silva / Eleanor Barnes / Daniel Wootton / Oliver Galgut / Jonathan Heeney / Helen Baxendale / Javier Castillo-Olivares / Rupert Beale / Edward Carr / Wendy Barclay / Maya Moshe / Massimo Palmarini / Brian Willett / John Kenneth Baillie / Jennie Evans / Erika Aquino

    The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, Vol 36, Iss , Pp 100809- (2024)

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    Abstract: Summary: Background: The protection of fourth dose mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is relevant to current global policy decisions regarding ongoing booster roll-out. We aimed to estimate the effect of fourth dose vaccination, prior infection, and ... ...

    Abstract Summary: Background: The protection of fourth dose mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is relevant to current global policy decisions regarding ongoing booster roll-out. We aimed to estimate the effect of fourth dose vaccination, prior infection, and duration of PCR positivity in a highly-vaccinated and largely prior-COVID-19 infected cohort of UK healthcare workers. Methods: Participants underwent fortnightly PCR and regular antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 and completed symptoms questionnaires. A multi-state model was used to estimate vaccine effectiveness (VE) against infection from a fourth dose compared to a waned third dose, with protection from prior infection and duration of PCR positivity jointly estimated. Findings: 1298 infections were detected among 9560 individuals under active follow-up between September 2022 and March 2023. Compared to a waned third dose, fourth dose VE was 13.1% (95% CI 0.9 to 23.8) overall; 24.0% (95% CI 8.5 to 36.8) in the first 2 months post-vaccination, reducing to 10.3% (95% CI −11.4 to 27.8) and 1.7% (95% CI −17.0 to 17.4) at 2–4 and 4–6 months, respectively. Relative to an infection >2 years ago and controlling for vaccination, 63.6% (95% CI 46.9 to 75.0) and 29.1% (95% CI 3.8 to 43.1) greater protection against infection was estimated for an infection within the past 0–6, and 6–12 months, respectively. A fourth dose was associated with greater protection against asymptomatic infection than symptomatic infection, whilst prior infection independently provided more protection against symptomatic infection, particularly if the infection had occurred within the previous 6 months. Duration of PCR positivity was significantly lower for asymptomatic compared to symptomatic infection. Interpretation: Despite rapid waning of protection, vaccine boosters remain an important tool in responding to the dynamic COVID-19 landscape; boosting population immunity in advance of periods of anticipated pressure, such as surging infection rates or emerging variants of concern. Funding: UK ...
    Keywords SARS-CoV-2 ; Vaccine effectiveness ; Asymptomatic ; Symptomatic ; Healthcare worker ; Cohort study ; Public aspects of medicine ; RA1-1270
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  3. Article ; Online: Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7

    Mark S Graham, PhD / Carole H Sudre, PhD / Anna May, MA / Michela Antonelli, PhD / Benjamin Murray, MSc / Thomas Varsavsky, MSc / Kerstin Kläser, MSc / Liane S Canas, PhD / Erika Molteni, PhD / Marc Modat, PhD / David A Drew, PhD / Long H Nguyen, MD / Lorenzo Polidori, MSc / Somesh Selvachandran, MSc / Christina Hu, MA / Joan Capdevila, PhD / Alexander Hammers, ProfPhD / Andrew T Chan, ProfMD / Jonathan Wolf, MA /
    Tim D Spector, ProfPhD / Claire J Steves, PhD / Sebastien Ourselin, ProfPhD / Cherian Koshy / Amy Ash / Emma Wise / Nathan Moore / Matilde Mori / Nick Cortes / Jessica Lynch / Stephen Kidd / Derek J Fairley / Tanya Curran / James P McKenna / Helen Adams / Christophe Fraser / Tanya Golubchik / David Bonsall / Mohammed O Hassan-Ibrahim / Cassandra S Malone / Benjamin J Cogger / Michelle Wantoch / Nicola Reynolds / Ben Warne / Joshua Maksimovic / Karla Spellman / Kathryn McCluggage / Michaela John / Robert Beer / Safiah Afifi / Sian Morgan / Angela Marchbank / Anna Price / Christine Kitchen / Huw Gulliver / Ian Merrick / Joel Southgate / Martyn Guest / Robert Munn / Trudy Workman / Thomas R Connor / William Fuller / Catherine Bresner / Luke B Snell / Amita Patel / Themoula Charalampous / Gaia Nebbia / Rahul Batra / Jonathan Edgeworth / Samuel C Robson / Angela H Beckett / David M Aanensen / Anthony P Underwood / Corin A Yeats / Khalil Abudahab / Ben EW Taylor / Mirko Menegazzo / Gemma Clark / Wendy Smith / Manjinder Khakh / Vicki M Fleming / Michelle M Lister / Hannah C Howson-Wells / Louise Berry / Tim Boswell / Amelia Joseph / Iona Willingham / Carl Jones / Christopher Holmes / Paul Bird / Thomas Helmer / Karlie Fallon / Julian Tang / Veena Raviprakash / Sharon Campbell / Nicola Sheriff / Victoria Blakey / Lesley-Anne Williams / Matthew W Loose / Nadine Holmes / Christopher Moore / Matthew Carlile / Victoria Wright / Fei Sang / Johnny Debebe / Francesc Coll / Adrian W Signell / Gilberto Betancor / Harry D Wilson / Sahar Eldirdiri / Anita Kenyon / Thomas Davis / Oliver G Pybus / Louis du Plessis / Alex E Zarebski / Jayna Raghwani / Moritz UG Kraemer / Sarah Francois / Stephen W Attwood / Tetyana I Vasylyeva / Marina Escalera Zamudio / Bernardo Gutierrez / M. Estee Torok / William L Hamilton / Ian G Goodfellow / Grant Hall / Aminu S Jahun / Yasmin Chaudhry / Myra Hosmillo / Malte L Pinckert / Iliana Georgana / Samuel Moses / Hannah Lowe / Luke Bedford / Jonathan Moore / Susanne Stonehouse / Chloe L Fisher / Ali R Awan / John BoYes / Judith Breuer / Kathryn Ann Harris / Julianne Rose Brown / Divya Shah / Laura Atkinson / Jack CD Lee / Nathaniel Storey / Flavia Flaviani / Adela Alcolea-Medina / Rebecca Williams / Gabrielle Vernet / Michael R Chapman / Lisa J Levett / Judith Heaney / Wendy Chatterton / Monika Pusok / Li Xu-McCrae / Darren L Smith / Matthew Bashton / Gregory R Young / Alison Holmes / Paul Anthony Randell / Alison Cox / Pinglawathee Madona / Frances Bolt / James Price / Siddharth Mookerjee / Manon Ragonnet-Cronin / Fabricia F. 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    The Lancet Public Health, Vol 6, Iss 5, Pp e335-e

    an ecological study

    2021  Volume 345

    Abstract: Summary: Background: The SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 was first identified in December, 2020, in England. We aimed to investigate whether increases in the proportion of infections with this variant are associated with differences in symptoms or disease ... ...

    Abstract Summary: Background: The SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 was first identified in December, 2020, in England. We aimed to investigate whether increases in the proportion of infections with this variant are associated with differences in symptoms or disease course, reinfection rates, or transmissibility. Methods: We did an ecological study to examine the association between the regional proportion of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant and reported symptoms, disease course, rates of reinfection, and transmissibility. Data on types and duration of symptoms were obtained from longitudinal reports from users of the COVID Symptom Study app who reported a positive test for COVID-19 between Sept 28 and Dec 27, 2020 (during which the prevalence of B.1.1.7 increased most notably in parts of the UK). From this dataset, we also estimated the frequency of possible reinfection, defined as the presence of two reported positive tests separated by more than 90 days with a period of reporting no symptoms for more than 7 days before the second positive test. The proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections with the B.1.1.7 variant across the UK was estimated with use of genomic data from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium and data from Public Health England on spike-gene target failure (a non-specific indicator of the B.1.1.7 variant) in community cases in England. We used linear regression to examine the association between reported symptoms and proportion of B.1.1.7. We assessed the Spearman correlation between the proportion of B.1.1.7 cases and number of reinfections over time, and between the number of positive tests and reinfections. We estimated incidence for B.1.1.7 and previous variants, and compared the effective reproduction number, Rt, for the two incidence estimates. Findings: From Sept 28 to Dec 27, 2020, positive COVID-19 tests were reported by 36 920 COVID Symptom Study app users whose region was known and who reported as healthy on app sign-up. We found no changes in reported symptoms or disease duration associated with B.1.1.7. For the same period, possible reinfections were identified in 249 (0·7% [95% CI 0·6–0·8]) of 36 509 app users who reported a positive swab test before Oct 1, 2020, but there was no evidence that the frequency of reinfections was higher for the B.1.1.7 variant than for pre-existing variants. Reinfection occurrences were more positively correlated with the overall regional rise in cases (Spearman correlation 0·56–0·69 for South East, London, and East of England) than with the regional increase in the proportion of infections with the B.1.1.7 variant (Spearman correlation 0·38–0·56 in the same regions), suggesting B.1.1.7 does not substantially alter the risk of reinfection. We found a multiplicative increase in the Rt of B.1.1.7 by a factor of 1·35 (95% CI 1·02–1·69) relative to pre-existing variants. However, Rt fell below 1 during regional and national lockdowns, even in regions with high proportions of infections with the B.1.1.7 variant. Interpretation: The lack of change in symptoms identified in this study indicates that existing testing and surveillance infrastructure do not need to change specifically for the B.1.1.7 variant. In addition, given that there was no apparent increase in the reinfection rate, vaccines are likely to remain effective against the B.1.1.7 variant. Funding: Zoe Global, Department of Health (UK), Wellcome Trust, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), National Institute for Health Research (UK), Medical Research Council (UK), Alzheimer's Society.
    Keywords Public aspects of medicine ; RA1-1270
    Subject code 150
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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