Booster vaccination is required to elicit and maintain COVID-19 vaccine-induced immunity in SIV-infected macaques.
Emerging microbes & infections(2023)
Abstract
Prolonged infection and possible evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in patients living with uncontrolled HIV-1 infection highlight the importance of an effective vaccination regimen, yet the immunogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines and predictive immune biomarkers have not been well investigated. Herein, we report that the magnitude and persistence of antibody and cell-mediated immunity (CMI) elicited by an Ad5-vectored COVID-19 vaccine are impaired in SIV-infected macaques with high viral loads (> 10 genome copies per ml plasma, SIV) but not in macaques with low viral loads (< 10, SIV). After a second vaccination, the immune responses are robustly enhanced in all uninfected and SIV macaques. These responses also show a moderate increase in 70% SIV macaques but decline sharply soon after. Further analysis reveals that decreased antibody and CMI responses are associated with reduced circulating follicular helper T cell (TFH) counts and aberrant CD4/CD8 ratios, respectively, indicating that dysregulation of CD4 T cells by SIV infection impairs the COVID-19 vaccine-induced immunity. Ad5-vectored COVID-19 vaccine shows no impact on SIV loads or SIV-specific CMI responses. Our study underscores the necessity of frequent booster vaccinations in HIV-infected patients and provides indicative biomarkers for predicting vaccination effectiveness in these patients.
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COVID-19 vaccine,HIV,SIV infection,immunodeficiency,immunogenicity,rhesus macaques
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