Abstract

Amid the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic, we aimed to demonstrate the accuracy of the fingertip whole blood sampling test (FWT) in measuring the antibody titer and uncovering its dynamics shortly after booster vaccination. Mokobio SARS-CoV-2 IgM & IgG Quantum Dot immunoassay (Mokobio Biotechnology R&D Center Inc., MD, USA) was used as a point-of-care FWT in 226 health care workers (HCWs) who had received two doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech) at least 8 months prior. Each participant tested their antibody titers before and after the third-dose booster up to 14-days. The effect of the booster was observed as early as the fourth day after vaccination, which exceeded the detection limit (> 30,000 U/mL) by 2.3% on the fifth day, 12.2% on the sixth day, and 22.5% after the seventh day. Significant positive correlations were observed between the pre- and post-vaccination (the seventh and eighth days) antibody titers (correlation coefficient, 0.405; p < 0.001). FWT is useful for examining antibody titers as a point-of-care test. Rapid response of antibody titer started as early as the fourth day post-vaccination, while the presence of weak responders to BNT162b2 vaccine was indicated.

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Title
Early-stage antibody kinetics after the third dose of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination measured by a point-of-care fingertip whole blood testing
Author
Hagiya, Hideharu 1 ; Nakano, Yasuhiro 1 ; Furukawa, Masanori 2 ; Sunada, Naruhiko 1 ; Hasegawa, Toru 1 ; Sakurada, Yasue 1 ; Hasegawa, Kou 1 ; Yamamoto, Koichiro 1 ; Ogawa, Hiroko 1 ; Obara, Takafumi 3 ; Ageta, Kouhei 3 ; Matsumoto, Naomi 4 ; Matsuo, Rumi 4 ; Kadowaki, Tomoka 4 ; Higashikage, Akihito 2 ; Hikita, Takao 5 ; Yorifuji, Takashi 4 ; Toyooka, Shinichi 6 ; Maeda, Yoshinobu 7 ; Yokokura, Yoshinori 8 ; Otsuka, Fumio 9 ; Nakayama, Masanori 5 

 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of General Medicine, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472) 
 Okayama University Hospital, Clinical Laboratory, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.412342.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0631 9477) 
 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Emergency, Critical Care, and Disaster Medicine, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472) 
 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Epidemiology, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472) 
 Okayama University, Office of Innovative Medicine, Organization for Research Strategy and Development, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472); Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Laboratory for Cell Polarity and Organogenesis, Bad Nauheim, Germany (GRID:grid.418032.c) (ISNI:0000 0004 0491 220X) 
 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Departments of General Thoracic Surgery and Breast and Endocrinological Surgery, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472) 
 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472) 
 Yokokura Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) 
 Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of General Medicine, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.261356.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1302 4472); Okayama University Hospital, Clinical Laboratory, Okayama, Japan (GRID:grid.412342.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 0631 9477) 
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2742910943
Copyright
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