Browsing by Author "Gonzalez Munoz, Pablo Alberto"

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    Differential Sars-cov-2 antigen specificity of the humoral response inactivated virus-vaccinated, convalescent, and breakthrough subjects
    (2022) Duarte Peñaloza, Luisa Fernanda; Vázquez Hernández, Yaneisi; Diethelm Varela, Benjamin Manuel; Pávez Carrasco, Valentina Ignacia; Berrios Rojas, Roslye; White, Jessica A.; Kalergis Parra, Alexis Mikes; Bueno Ramírez, Susan Marcela; Gonzalez Munoz, Pablo Alberto
    Analytical methods for the differential determination between natural infection with SARS- CoV-2 vs. immunity elicited by vaccination or infection after immunization (breakthrough cases) represent attractive new research venues in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Herein, we set out to compare humoral responses against several SARS-CoV-2 structural and non-structural proteins in infected unvaccinated (convalescent), vaccinated, as well as vaccinated and infected (breakthrough) individuals. Our results indicate that immunization with an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (CoronaVac) induces significantly higher levels of IgG antibodies against the membrane (M) protein of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to convalescent subjects both, after the primary vaccination schedule and after a booster dose. Moreover, we found that CoronaVac-immunized individuals, after receiving a third vaccine shot, display equivalent levels of N-specific IgG antibodies as convalescents subjects. Regarding non-structural viral proteins, for the two viral proteins ORF3a and NSP8, IgG antibodies were produced in more than 50% of the convalescent subjects. Finally, a logistic regression model and a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis show that combined detection of M and N proteins may be useful as a biomarker to differentiate breakthrough cases from vaccinated and convalescent individuals that did not receive prior vaccination. Taken together, these results suggest that multiple SARS-CoV-2 antigens may be used as differential biomarkers for distinguishing natural infection from vaccination.