Immune imprinting as a barrier to effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Faraone, Julia N; Liu, Shan-Lu · Cell Rep Med · 2023

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Abstract

Wang and colleagues show that immune imprinting impairs neutralizing antibody titers for bivalent mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants. Imprinting from three doses of monovalent vaccine can be alleviated by BA.5 or BQ-lineage breakthrough infection but not by a bivalent booster.<sup>1</sup>.

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