NCT04402827

Different Susceptibility to SARS CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Workers Highly Exposed to COVID-19.

Differences in Susceptibility to SARS CoV-2 Infection According to ACE2 and CD26 Receptors, Specific CD4/CD8 T Cell Response to Viral Peptides, and KIR Receptors Among Health Care Workers Highly Exposed to Patients With COVID-19 Diagnosis.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: Asociacion para el Estudio de las Enfermedades Infecciosas · Network
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary objective of this study is to establish differences in susceptibility to SARS CoV-2 infection among health care workers (HCW) highly exposed to patients with COVID-19 diagnosis. To ascertain this issue, we evaluated: * Changes in receptor polymorphism (ACE2 and CD26 receptor study. * SARS-CoV-2 CD4/CD8 T cell response (CTL) * Different KIR phenotypes

Detailed description

Only 24% of health care workers (HCW) had developed inmunological response to SARS CoV-2 infection in one centre attending thousands of COVID-19 patients, and with shorteness of personal protective equipments. Our hypothesis is that this relatively low number of infected HCW could be secondary to: 1. Differences in susceptibility to infection mediated by changes in viral receptors. Thus, it is important to characterize and genotyping the main receptor for SARS-CoV-2, ACE2, and other related receptor, such as CD26. 2. Increased cellular immune response, offering cross-immunity against SARS CoV-2 infection by previous exposure to other coronavirus or respiratory pathogens. A specific CD4/CD8 T cell response to viral peptides could respond this question 3. Specific KIR phenotypes (Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptors): Natural killer cells (NK) response to alterations of class I HLA molecules presented in infected cells. An increase in class I HLA expression could lead to an increase in NK activation by increasing its ability to produce IFN-gamma.

Conditions

• Health Care Worker Patient Transmission
• Receptor Site Alteration
• Susceptibility, Disease
• Immune Response

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Susceptibility to infection	ACE2 and CD26 receptor study: After genomic DNA extraction and quantification using a NanoDrop-1000, 14 ACE2 SNPs (rs1978124, rs2048683, rs2074192, rs2106809, rs2285666, rs233575, rs4240157, rs4646142, rs4646155, rs4646156, rs4646188, rs4830542, rs6632677, and rs879922) will be studied. In addition, one CD26 (DPP4) SNP (rs7608798) will be analysed (qualitative measure). SARS-CoV-2 CD4/CD8 T cell response: SARS-CoV-2 peptides (Prot-S, Pros-N and Port-M) will be used to activate CD4 and CD8 T cells. Cytokines released, such as IFNg, TNFa, IL4, IL17A, and IL2, from each cell subset will be measured by flow cytometry (quantitative measure). KIR characterization: Characterization of the presence of 14 genes plus 2 pseudogenes of KIR gene family (qualitative genotyping) by PCR, mRNA expression profiling (quantitative measures) by RT-PCR, and phenotyping of human NK cells analyzing different KIR receptors (quantitative measure) by flow cytometry, will be analyzed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-01
• Primary completion: 2021-08-30
• Completion: 2021-09-30
• First posted: 2020-05-27
• Last updated: 2021-10-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain