Durability of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination in people living with HIV

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    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsConsent: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the trial was done in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice.
    IRB: Study approval in the UK was done by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (reference 21584/0424/001-0001) and the South Central Berkshire Research Ethics Committee (reference 20/SC/0145).
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    RandomizationFor some assays and where sample availability allowed, comparison was made with age- and sex-matched participants who were HIV negative, aged 18–55 years, enrolled into the main COV002 phase 2/3 randomised clinical trial, and randomly assigned (5:1) to receive either ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or MenACWY by intramuscular vaccination.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    After 2-hour incubation and a washing step, detection antibody (MSD SULFO-TAG™ Anti-Human IgG Antibody, 1/200) was added.
    Anti-Human IgG
    suggested: None
    Assays were performed using Multiscreen IP ELISpot plates (Merck Millipore, Watford, UK) coated with 10 μg/mL human anti-IFNγ antibody and developed using SA-ALP antibody conjugate kits (Mabtech, Stockholm, Sweden) and BCIP NBT-plus chromogenic substrate (Moss Inc., Pasadena, MA, USA).
    anti-IFNγ
    suggested: None
    SA-ALP
    suggested: None
    After stimulation cells were stained with the anti-human antibodies contained in supplementary table 6.
    anti-human
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    A MULTI-SPOT® 96-well, 10 spot plate was coated with three SARS CoV-2 antigens (S, RBD, N), SARS-CoV-1 and MERS-CoV spike trimers, as well as spike proteins from seasonal human coronaviruses, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E and HCoV-NL63, and bovine serum albumin.
    HCoV-229E
    suggested: None
    HCoV-NL63
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_RW88)
    The mixtures were then transferred to 96-well, cell culture-treated, flat-bottom microplate containing confluent Vero cell monolayers in duplicate and incubated for further 2 hours, followed by the addition of 1.5% semi-solid carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) overlay medium to each well to limit virus diffusion.
    Vero
    suggested: CLS Cat# 605372/p622_VERO, RRID:CVCL_0059)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Participants with a history of laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection by anti-N protein IgG immunoassay (Abbott Architect, Abbott Park, IL, USA) at screening were excluded.
    Abbott Architect
    suggested: (Abbott ARCHITECT i1000sr System, RRID:SCR_019328)
    Standardised EUs were determined from a single dilution of each sample against the standard curve which was plotted using the 4-Parameter logistic model (Gen5 v3.09, BioTek).
    Gen5
    suggested: (Gen5, RRID:SCR_017317)
    The percentage of focus reduction was calculated and IC50 (reported as FRNT50) was determined using the probit program from the SPSS package.
    SPSS
    suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)
    The data was analysed using FlowJo version 10 and Prism version 9.
    FlowJo
    suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)
    Prism
    suggested: (PRISM, RRID:SCR_005375)
    Gating strategies are as shown in supplementary figure 1a and b Phylogenetic analysis: We used protein BLAST to download all human coronavirus S protein sequences from NCBI database.
    BLAST
    suggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)
    NCBI
    suggested: (NCBI, RRID:SCR_006472)
    We used MAFFT to align all chosen human corona viruses, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 S protein sequences.
    MAFFT
    suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)
    We then calculated the pairwise distances between the sequences and built a neighbour joining tree using MATLAB.
    MATLAB
    suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)
    We did all analyses using R (version 3.6.1 or later), and Prism 9 (GraphPad Software).
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04400838Active, not recruitingInvestigating a Vaccine Against COVID-19


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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