In Vitro Efficacy of Antivirals and Monoclonal Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Lineages XBB.1.9.1, XBB.1.9.3, XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16, XBB.2.4, BQ.1.1.45, CH.1.1, and CL.1
In Vitro study showing sharply reduced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants XBB.1.9.1, XBB.1.9.3, XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16, XBB.2.4, BQ.1.1.45, CH.1.1, and CL.1 with monoclonal antibodies cilgavimab, tixagevimab, imdevimab, etsevimab, casirivimab, bamlanivimab, and regdanvimab. Only sotrovimab retained measurable, though reduced neutralizing activity.
Efficacy was retained for remdesivir, molnupiravir, and nirmatrelvir, however IC50 values for remdesivir were ~3 times higher for XBB.1.* variants compared with B.1.1, BQ.1.1.45, CL.1, CH.1.1, and XBB.2.9, and the IC50 for nirmatrelvir for XBB.2.9 was ~2 times higher compared with previous variants.
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Pochtovyi et al., 28 Sep 2023, peer-reviewed, 16 authors, study period September 2022 - May 2023.
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a.pochtovyy@gamaleya.org (corresponding author), kustovad70@gmail.com, wowaniada@yandex.ru.
In Vitro studies are an important part of preclinical research, however results may be very different in vivo.