Relationship Between T-cell-dependent and T-cell-independent Vaccines After Neurotrauma; is the B-cell Response Preserved?

Overview

Journal Hum Vaccin Immunother

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2022 Jun 15

PMID 35704795

Authors

Anna Ljunghill Hedberg

Karlis Pauksens

Per Enblad

Anders Larsson

Jan Sjolin

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Abstract

Background: After trauma and central nervous system (CNS) injury, trauma-induced immune deficiency syndrome (TIDS) and CNS injury-induced immune deficiency syndrome (CIDS) may negatively affect responses to T-cell-dependent vaccines, such as pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) recommended after basilar fracture. This study (NCT02806284) aimed to investigate whether there after neurotrauma is a correlation between T-cell-dependent and independent vaccine responses and, thus, if B-cell activity is similarly depressed and whether the T-cell-dependent response is possible to predict.

Methods: Adult patients with basilar fracture (n = 33) and those undergoing pituitary gland surgery (n = 23) were within 10 days vaccinated with a T-cell-dependent vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and a T-cell-independent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV). Samples reflecting the systemic inflammatory response and pre- and post-vaccination antibody levels after 3-6 weeks against Hib and PPSV were collected and determined by enzyme immunoassays.

Results: High and significant correlations were detected in the responses to different pneumococcal serotypes, but none between the Hib and PPSV responses. No differences in trauma scores, C-reactive protein, IL-6, IL-10, pentraxin 3, fractalkine or calprotectin plasma concentrations or in ex vivo TNF-α, IL-6 or IL-10 responses to endotoxin were found between Hib vaccination responders and non-responders.

Conclusions: There was no correlation between the pneumococcal responses and that to Hib, indicating that B-cell function is not similarly depressed as T-cell function. Grading of the trauma or parameters reflecting the innate immune response could not predict the T-cell-dependent vaccine response. There is a need of further studies evaluating the vaccine response after neurotrauma.

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