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Mateus V de Castro1, Monize V R Silva1, Michel S Naslavsky1,2
1Human Genome and Stem Cell Research Center, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background:
Although older adults are at a high risk of severe or critical Covid-19, there are many cases of unvaccinated centenarians who had a silent infection or recovered from mild or moderate Covid-19. We studied three Brazilian supercentenarians, older than 110 years, who survived Covid-19 in 2020 before being vaccinated.
Results:
Despite their advanced age, humoral immune response analysis showed that these individuals displayed robust levels of IgG and neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) against SARS-CoV-2. Enrichment of plasma proteins and metabolites related to innate immune response and host defense was also observed. None presented autoantibodies (auto-Abs) to type I interferon (IFN). Furthermore, these supercentenarians do not carry rare variants in genes underlying the known inborn errors of immunity, including particular inborn errors of type I IFN.
Conclusion:
These observations suggest that their Covid-19 resilience might be a combination of their genetic background and their innate and adaptive immunity.
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