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Focusing on Good Responders to Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccination in General Hospital Patients Suspected for Immunodeficiency. A Decision Tree Based on the 23-Valent Pneumococcal IgG Assay.


ABSTRACT: Background and Aim: Recently, the 23-valent IgG-assay was suggested as screening assay to identify poor responders to pneumococcal polysaccharide (PnPS)-vaccination with the serotype-specific assay as a second-line test. However, in a low pre-test probability general hospital setting predicting good responders could be more valuable to reduce the number of samples needing serotyping. Methods: Serotype-specific PnPS antibody-assays were performed for suspected immunodeficiency in two Dutch general hospitals (Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch; Elisabeth Tweesteden Hospital, Tilburg). 23-Valent PnPS antibody-assays were subsequently performed in archived material. Data were analyzed using receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) and agreement indices (ICC). Results: Sera of 284 patients (348 samples) were included; 23-valent IgG-titres and the corresponding sum of PnPS-serotype specific antibodies showed moderate correlation (ICC = 0.63). In 232 conjugated-pneumococcal-vaccine-naïve patients (270 samples), a random 23-valent IgG-titer could discriminate between samples with and without ?7/11, ?7/13, or ?6/9 pneumococcal serotypes when both cut-off values 0.35 and 1.0 ?g/ml were used (AUC 0.86 and 0.92, respectively). All patients with a pre-immunization-titer ?38.2 ?g/ml and/or post-immunization-titer ?96.1 ?g/ml and none with a post-immunization-titer ?38.5 ?g/ml exhibited a good response to PnPS vaccination. Using these breakpoints as screening test to predict good responders, only 24% of patients would require further serotyping, as opposed to 68% if breakpoints to predict poor responders would have been used. Conclusion: In a low pre-test probability setting, the 23-valent IgG-assay proved to be a reliable screening test for good responders in conjugated-pneumococcal-vaccine-naïve patients, reducing the overall number of patient samples needing further serotyping, thus reducing overall costs of pneumococcal vaccination response assessment.

SUBMITTER: Janssen LMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6848064 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Focusing on Good Responders to Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccination in General Hospital Patients Suspected for Immunodeficiency. A Decision Tree Based on the 23-Valent Pneumococcal IgG Assay.

Janssen Lisanne M A LMA   Heron Michiel M   Murk Jean-Luc JL   Leenders Alexander C A P ACAP   Rijkers Ger T GT   de Vries Esther E  

Frontiers in immunology 20191105


<b>Background and Aim:</b> Recently, the 23-valent IgG-assay was suggested as screening assay to identify <i>poor</i> responders to pneumococcal polysaccharide (PnPS)-vaccination with the serotype-specific assay as a second-line test. However, in a low pre-test probability general hospital setting predicting <i>good</i> responders could be more valuable to reduce the number of samples needing serotyping. <b>Methods:</b> Serotype-specific PnPS antibody-assays were performed for suspected immunode  ...[more]

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