CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
IMAJ | volume 24
Journal 11, November 2022
pages: 695-696
Regen-COV-2 Antibody Cocktail Mediated Clearance of SARS-COV-2 in an Immunocompromised Patient
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
2 Biotechnology and Radiology Laboratory, Hadassah Medical Organization and Faculty of Medicine Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
3 Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
Summary
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects different people in different ways. Most infected people develop mild to moderate illness and recover without hospitalization. This case report presents a patient who had difficulty eradicating the corona virus due to being treated with rituximab, which depletes B lymphocytes and therefore disables the production of neutralizing antibodies. The regen-COV-2 antibody cocktail consists of two monoclonal antibodies, casirivimab and imdevimab. This cocktail successfully helped the patient's immune system eradicate the virus without auto specific severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibody production. In vitro studies confirm that eradication of the intact the virus. This case report emphases the importance of providing external antiviral antibodies regularly, like the regen-COV-2 antibody cocktail, as post- and even pre- SARS-CoV-2 infection prophylaxis in patients treated with rituximab.