Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccination in Immunocompromised Patients (Auto-COVID-VACC): Protocol for Multicenter Prospective Noninterventional Study

Louise Marie Cremer   ^{1, 2, 3} ;   Ullrich Bethe   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, MSc, MSc ;   Peter Borchmann   ² , MD ;   Veronica Di Cristanziano   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Lutz Gieselmann   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Sarah Grimm   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   Martin Hellmich   ⁵ , PhD ;   Julia Jakobs   ^{1, 2, 3} , MSc ;   Julia A Nacov   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Julia M Neuhann   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Juergen Prattes   ⁶ , MD ;   Christoph Scheid   ² , MD ;   Rosanne Sprute   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Gertrud Steger   ⁴ , PhD ;   Jannik Stemler   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD ;   Sibylle C Mellinghoff   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , MD ;   Oliver A Cornely   ^{1, 2, 3, 7 *} , MD

¹ Institute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

² Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf (CIO ABCD) and Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

³ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany

⁴ Institute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

⁵ Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

⁷ Clinical Trials Centre Cologne (ZKS Köln), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

*these authors contributed equally