Lack of Ronapreve (REGN-CoV; casirivimab and imdevimab) virological efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) in K18-hACE2 mice
Lee Tatham, Joanne Sharp, Edyta Kijak, Joanne Herriott, Megan Neary, Helen Box, Anthony Valentijn, Helen Cox, Henry Pertinez, Paul Curley, Usman Arshad, Rajith Kr Rajoli, Steve Rannard, James Stewart, Andrew Owen
doi:10.1101/2022.01.23.477397
AO and SR are Directors of Tandem Nano Ltd and co-inventors of patents relating to drug delivery. AO has received research funding from ViiV, Merck, Janssen and consultancy from Gilead, ViiV and Merck not related to the current paper. SR has received research funding from ViiV and AstraZeneca and consultancy from Gilead not related to the current paper. No other conflicts are declared by the authors.
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'abstract': '<jats:p>The Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of SARS-CoV-2 has placed enormous strain on global '
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'Omicron has >50 mutations which mainly occur in the surface spike protein and this has led '
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'Ronapreve has shown potential application in post-exposure prophylaxis, mild/moderate disease '
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'vitro neutralisation activity have been documented. Here, the virological efficacy of '
'Ronapreve was assessed in K18-hACE2 mice to provide an in vivo outcome. Ronapreve reduced '
'sub-genomic RNA in lung and nasal turbinate for the Delta variant but not the Omicron variant '
'of SARS-CoV-2 at doses 2-fold higher than those shown to be active against previous variants '
'of the virus. These data add to the growing evidence that the effectiveness of Ronapreve is '
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