Table 4 Model parameters estimated on Phase I participants by Pasin et al.16 and the new estimates obtained on pooled Phase I and Phase II data and considering adjustment for laboratory effects.

From: Prediction of long-term humoral response induced by the two-dose heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo vaccine against Ebola

Parameter

Meaning

Phase I data

Phase I & II data

  

Mean

95% CI

Mean

95% CI

Fixed effects

δAb

Antibody decay rate (day−1)

0.029

[0.027; 0.033]

  

Women

   

0.0251

[0.0223; 0.0283]

Men

   

0.0353

[0.0296; 0.0421]

\(\log ({{{2}}})/{{{{\delta }}}}_{{{{\rm{Ab}}}}}\)

Antibody half-life (days)

24

[22; 26]

  

Women

   

27.6

[24.5; 31.1]

Men

   

19.6

[16.4; 23.4]

δS

SL ASCs decay rate (day−1)

0.231

[0.15; 0.36]

0.333

[0.326; 0.340]

\(\log ({{{2}}})/{{{{\delta }}}}_{{{{\rm {{S}}}}}}\)

SL ASCs half-life (days)

3.0

[1.9; 4.7]

2.08

[2.04; 2.13]

δL

LL ASCs decay rate (year−1)

3.16 × 10−4

[1.46; 7.03] × 10−4

1.25 × 10−4

 

\(\log ({{{\bf{2}}}})/{{{{\boldsymbol{\delta }}}}}_{{{{\boldsymbol{L}}}}}\)

LL ASCs half-life (years)

6.0

[2.7; 13]

15.0

 

ϕS

SL ASCs influx (EU/mL/day)

2755

[1852; 4100]

  

Mean Age (31.3 years)

   

3057

[2418; 3865]

FC ΔAge = + 1 yeara

   

0.934

[0.915; 0.954]

ϕL

LL ASCs influx (EU/mL/day)

    

African part.

 

16.6

[13.7; 20.1]

10.2

[9.01; 11.4]

Eur. part.

 

70.7

[54.0; 92.7]

36.6

[27.3; 49.2]

α

Scaling factor—lab effects

    

αfocus

   

1.04

[0.93; 1.16]

αQ2sol

   

1.00

[0.98; 1.02]

Random effects

\({{{{\omega }}}}_{{{{{\phi }}}}_{{{{\rm{S}}}}}}\)

Sd of RE on ϕS

0.92

[0.83; 1.01]

0.84

[0.56; 1.13]

\({{{{\omega }}}}_{{{{{\phi }}}}_{{{{\rm{L}}}}}}\)

Sd of RE on ϕL

0.85

[0.78; 0.92]

0.88

[0.81; 0.96]

\({{{{\omega }}}}_{{{{{\delta }}}}_{{{{\rm{Ab}}}}}}\)

Sd of RE on δAb

0.30

[0.24; 0.36]

0.35

[0.29; 0.41]

Error model

σAb

Sd of error model

0.10

[0.10; 0.10]

0.107

[0.101; 0.112]

  1. CI confidence interval, EU ELISA units, Eur. European, FC fold change, LL ASCs long-lived antibody-secreting cells, Part. participants, RE random effects, SL ASCs short-lived antibody-secreting cells, Sd standard deviation.
  2. aRepresents the multiplicative factor to apply to the value of ϕS, obtained for the mean age, for an increase in participant age of 1 year: ϕS(Mean Age + 1 year) = ϕS(Mean Age) × FC(ΔAge = +1). Therefore, the percentage of decrease of ϕS for a participant X years older than the mean age is given by 100×(1−FC(ΔAge = +1)X).