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ABSTRACT: Background
The serologic and cytokine responses of children hospitalized with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) vs coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are poorly understood.Methods
We performed a prospective, multicenter, cross-sectional study of hospitalized children who met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition for MIS-C (n = 118), acute COVID-19 (n = 88), or contemporaneous healthy controls (n = 24). We measured severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) immunoglobulin G (IgG) titers and cytokine concentrations in patients and performed multivariable analysis to determine cytokine signatures associated with MIS-C. We also measured nucleocapsid IgG and convalescent RBD IgG in subsets of patients.Results
Children with MIS-C had significantly higher SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG than children with acute COVID-19 (median, 2783 vs 146; P < .001), and titers correlated with nucleocapsid IgG. For patients with MIS-C, RBD IgG titers declined in convalescence (median, 2783 vs 1135; P = .010) in contrast to patients with COVID-19 (median, 146 vs 4795; P < .001). MIS-C was characterized by transient acute proinflammatory hypercytokinemia, including elevated levels of interleukin (IL) 6, IL-10, IL-17A, and interferon gamma (IFN-γ). Elevation of at least 3 of these cytokines was associated with significantly increased prevalence of prolonged hospitalization ≥8 days (prevalence ratio, 3.29 [95% CI, 1.17-9.23]).Conclusions
MIS-C was associated with high titers of SARS-CoV-2 RBD IgG antibodies and acute hypercytokinemia with IL-6, IL-10, IL-17A, and IFN-γ.
SUBMITTER: Lapp SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8883592 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lapp Stacey A SA Abrams Joseph J Lu Austin T AT Hussaini Laila L Kao Carol M CM Hunstad David A DA Rosenberg Robert B RB Zafferani Marc J MJ Ede Kaleo C KC Ballan Wassim W Laham Federico R FR Beltran Yajira Y Hsiao Hui-Mien HM Sherry Whitney W Jenkins Elan E Jones Kaitlin K Horner Anna A Brooks Alyssa A Bryant Bobbi B Meng Lu L Hammett Teresa A TA Oster Matthew E ME Bamrah-Morris Sapna S Godfred-Cato Shana S Belay Ermias E Chahroudi Ann A Anderson Evan J EJ Jaggi Preeti P Rostad Christina A CA
Open forum infectious diseases 20220224 3
<h4>Background</h4>The serologic and cytokine responses of children hospitalized with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) vs coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are poorly understood.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a prospective, multicenter, cross-sectional study of hospitalized children who met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition for MIS-C (n = 118), acute COVID-19 (n = 88), or contemporaneous healthy controls (n = 24). We measured severe acute respiratory syndrom ...[more]