However, other aspects of vaccine-induced immunity must account for severe disease prevention
However, other aspects of vaccine-induced immunity must account for severe disease prevention. access and principal target for infection-blocking (i.e., neutralizing) antibodies, worried scientists that vaccine immunity would be significantly weakened. In this issue of shed some light around the breadth issue. Vaccination with the original parent SARS-CoV-2 spike provided strong neutralizing antibody activity to the parent Rabbit Polyclonal to Doublecortin SARS-CoV-2 strain but extremely poor activity against the Omicron variant. However, boosting with a third dose of the same vaccine several months later dramatically increased (20C30) neutralizing antibodies to Omicron but only increased neutralization activity to the original parent strain modestly (1C4) compared to the two-dose vaccine regimen Pexmetinib (ARRY-614) (Garcia-Beltran et?al., 2021; Dejnirattisai et?al., 2022; Hoffmann et?al., 2021). In other words, a third jab tended to equalize neutralization protection…