Ahlem Ben Hmid

Dr. Ahlem Ben Hmid

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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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3 November 2014 in Cellular & Molecular Immunology
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RRRaja Rekik
Raja Rekik
NHNadia Belhadj Hmida
Nadia Belhadj Hmida
AHAhlem Ben Hmid
Ahlem Ben Hmid
IZImen Zamali
Imen Zamali
NKNs Kammoun
Ns Kammoun
MAMelika Ben Ahmed
Melika Ben Ahmed

27 July 2022 in Vaccines
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Melika Ben Ahmed
HBHedia Bellali
Hedia Bellali
MGmariem gdoura
mariem gdoura
IZImen Zamali
Imen Zamali
OKOuafa Kallala
Ouafa Kallala
ATAbdelhalim Trabelsi
Abdelhalim Trabelsi
Background: The mass vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 was started in Tunisia on 13 March 2021 by using progressively seven different vaccines approved for emergency use. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the humoral and cellular immunity in subjects aged 40 years and over who received one of the following two-dose regimen vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, namely mRNA-1273 or Spikevax (Moderna), BNT162B2 or Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech), Gam-COVID-Vac or Sputnik V (Gamaleya Research Institute), ChAdOx1-S or Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca), BIBP (Sinopharm), and Coronavac (Sinovac). Material and methods: For each type of vaccine, a sample of subjects aged 40 and over was randomly selected from the national platform for monitoring COVID-19 vaccination and contacted to participate to this study. All consenting participants were sampled for peripheral blood at 3–7 weeks after the second vaccine dose to perform anti-S and anti-N serology by the Elecsys® (Lenexa, KS, USA) anti-SARS-CoV-2 assays (Roche® Basel, Switzerland). The CD4 and CD8 T cell responses were evaluated by the QuantiFERON® SARS-CoV-2 (Qiagen® Basel, Switzerland) for a randomly selected sub-group. Results: A total of 501 people consented to the study and, of them, 133 were included for the cellular response investigations. Both humoral and cellular immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 antigens differed significantly between all tested groups. RNA vaccines induced the highest levels of humoral and cellular anti-S responses followed by adenovirus vaccines and then by inactivated vaccines. Vaccines from the same platform induced similar levels of specific anti-S immune responses except in the case of the Sputnik V and the AstraZeneca vaccine, which exhibited contrasting effects on humoral and cellular responses. When analyses were performed in subjects with negative anti-N antibodies, results were similar to those obtained within the total cohort, except for the Moderna vaccine, which gave a better cellular immune response than the Pfizer vaccine and RNA vaccines, which induced similar cellular immune responses to those of adenovirus vaccines. Conclusion: Collectively, our data confirmed the superiority of the RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, in particular that of Moderna, for both humoral and cellular immunogenicity. Our results comparing between different vaccine platforms in a similar population are of great importance since they may help decision makers to adopt the best strategy for further national vaccination programs.

27 September 2017 in International Journal of Dermatology
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RRRaja Rekik
Raja Rekik
AHAhlem Ben Hmid
Ahlem Ben Hmid
CLChayma Lajnef
Chayma Lajnef
IZImen Zamali
Imen Zamali
IZInes Zaraa
Ines Zaraa
MAMelika Ben Ahmed
Melika Ben Ahmed

1 October 2020 in Cytokine
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AHAhlem Ben Hmid
Ahlem Ben Hmid
OSOumayma Selmi
Oumayma Selmi
RRRaja Rekik
Raja Rekik
HLHajer Lamari
Hajer Lamari
IZImen Zamali
Imen Zamali
MAMelika Ben Ahmed
Melika Ben Ahmed

30 November 2018 in Journal of Leukocyte Biology
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IZImen Zamali
Imen Zamali
RRRaja Rekik
Raja Rekik
NHNadia Belhadj Hmida
Nadia Belhadj Hmida
AHAhlem Ben Hmid
Ahlem Ben Hmid
OKOns Kammoun
Ons Kammoun
MAMelika Ben Ahmed
Melika Ben Ahmed

3 July 2015 in International Journal of Dermatology
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AHAhlem Ben Hmid
Ahlem Ben Hmid
NHNadia Belhadj Hmida
Nadia Belhadj Hmida
MAMaha Abdeladhim
Maha Abdeladhim
AOAmel Ben Osman
Amel Ben Osman
HLHechmi Louzir
Hechmi Louzir
MAMélika Ben Ahmed
Mélika Ben Ahmed