[HTML][HTML] Beneficial non-specific effects of live vaccines against COVID-19 and other unrelated infections

P Aaby, MG Netea, CS Benn - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2023 - thelancet.com
Live attenuated vaccines could have beneficial, non-specific effects of protecting against
vaccine-unrelated infections, such as BCG protecting against respiratory infection. During …

[HTML][HTML] Trained immunity: implications for vaccination

B Geckin, FK Föhse, J Domínguez-Andrés… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Trained immunity is induced in a variety of innate immune cell types.•Central and
peripheral trained immunity underlies the long-term effects of innate immunity.•Metabolic …

Durability of BNT162b2 vaccine against hospital and emergency department admissions due to the omicron and delta variants in a large health system in the USA: a …

SY Tartof, JM Slezak, L Puzniak, V Hong… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The duration of protection against the omicron (B. 1.1. 529) variant for current
COVID-19 vaccines is not well characterised. Vaccine-specific estimates are especially …

BCG vaccination stimulates integrated organ immunity by feedback of the adaptive immune response to imprint prolonged innate antiviral resistance

A Lee, K Floyd, S Wu, Z Fang, TK Tan, HM Froggatt… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination can confer nonspecific protection
against heterologous pathogens. However, the underlying mechanisms remain mysterious …

Trained immunity: Target for prophylaxis and therapy

A Ziogas, M Bruno, R van der Meel, WJM Mulder… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Trained immunity is a de facto memory for innate immune responses, leading to long-term
functional reprogramming of innate immune cells. In physiological conditions, trained …

The role of trained immunity in COVID-19: Lessons for the next pandemic

MG Netea, A Ziogas, CS Benn… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Trained immunity is a long-term increase in responsiveness of innate immune cells, induced
by certain infections and vaccines. During the last 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Trained immunity-related vaccines: innate immune memory and heterologous protection against infections

A Ziogas, MG Netea - Trends in molecular medicine, 2022 - cell.com
The innate immune system is able to build memory-like features in response to certain
infections or vaccines, resulting in enhanced responsiveness upon (re) challenge with the …

Functional and epigenetic changes in monocytes from adults immunized with an AS01-adjuvanted vaccine

V Bechtold, KK Smolen, W Burny… - Science Translational …, 2024 - science.org
The adjuvant AS01 plays a key role in the immunogenicity of several approved human
vaccines with demonstrated high efficacy. Its adjuvant effect relies on activation of the innate …

Heterologous vaccination interventions to reduce pandemic morbidity and mortality: Modeling the US winter 2020 COVID-19 wave

N Hupert, D Marín-Hernández, B Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
COVID-19 remains a stark health threat worldwide, in part because of minimal levels of
targeted vaccination outside high-income countries and highly transmissible variants …

Epigenetic adjuvants: durable reprogramming of the innate immune system with adjuvants

A Lee, F Wimmers, B Pulendran - Current opinion in immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Studies suggest adjuvants could induce epigenetic reprogramming of myeloid
cells.•Reprogramming could lead to a durable state of heightened antiviral resistance.•This …