COVID-19 convalescent plasma and clinical trials: understanding conflicting outcomes

D Focosi, M Franchini, L Pirofski… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Convalescent plasma (CP) recurs as a frontline treatment in epidemics because it is
available as soon as there are survivors. The COVID-19 pandemic represented the first …

Immunogenicity and Safety of Standard and Third‐Dose SARS–CoV‐2 Vaccination in Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Therapy

SW Syversen, I Jyssum, AT Tveter… - Arthritis & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Immunogenicity and safety following receipt of the standard SARS–CoV‐2
vaccination regimen in patients with immune‐mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) are …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence-based dosing of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 in future trials

BJA Rijnders, S Huygens, O Mitjà - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Two years into the pandemic, convincing evidence in favour of convalescent
plasma (ConvP) as a treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is still lacking. This …

Titers of antibodies against ancestral SARS-CoV-2 correlate with levels of neutralizing antibodies to multiple variants

TT Tran, EB Vaage, A Mehta, A Chopra, L Tietze… - npj Vaccines, 2022 - nature.com
Diagnostic assays currently used to monitor the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines measure
levels of antibodies to the receptor-binding domain of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 (RBDwt) …

Prospective individual patient data meta-analysis of two randomized trials on convalescent plasma for COVID-19 outpatients

P Millat-Martinez, A Gharbharan, A Alemany… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Data on convalescent plasma (CP) treatment in COVID-19 outpatients are scarce. We aimed
to assess whether CP administered during the first week of symptoms reduced the disease …

Hyperimmune globulin for severely immunocompromised patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019: a randomized, controlled trial

S Huygens, Q Hofsink, IS Nijhof… - The Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background The aim of this randomized, controlled trial is to determine whether antisevere
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 hyperimmune globulin (COVIG) protects against …

[HTML][HTML] Functional immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in the general population after a booster campaign and the Delta and Omicron waves, Switzerland, March 2022

R Amati, A Frei, M Kaufmann, S Sabatini… - …, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
Functional immunity (defined here as serum neutralising capacity) critically contributes to
conferring protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19. This cross …

Preclinical evaluation of a candidate naked plasmid DNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2

R Lassaunière, C Polacek, GJ Gram, A Frische… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
New generation plasmid DNA vaccines may be a safe, fast and simple emergency vaccine
platform for preparedness against emerging viral pathogens. Applying platform optimization …

Optimization and evaluation of a live virus SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assay

A Frische, PT Brooks, M Gybel-Brask, SG Sækmose… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Virus neutralization assays provide a means to quantitate functional antibody responses that
block virus infection. These assays are instrumental in defining vaccine and therapeutic …

Therapeutic equine hyperimmune antibodies with high and broad-spectrum neutralizing activity protect rodents against SARS-CoV-2 infection

E Li, Q Han, J Bi, S Wei, S Wang, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants stresses the continued need for broad-spectrum
therapeutic antibodies. Several therapeutic monoclonal antibodies or cocktails have been …