Immunological imprinting shapes the specificity of human antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2 variants

TS Johnston, SH Li, MM Painter, RK Atkinson… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
The spike glycoprotein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)
continues to accumulate substitutions, leading to breakthrough infections of vaccinated …

Randomized controlled trial reveals no benefit to a 3-month delay in COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccine

WS Lee, J Audsley, MC Trieu, A Reynaldi… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
BACKGROUND There is uncertainty about the timing of booster vaccination against COVID-
19 in highly vaccinated populations during the present endemic phase of COVID-19. Studies …

Durability of humoral and cellular immunity six months after the BNT162b2 bivalent booster

J Favresse, C Gillot, M Closset, J Cabo… - Journal of medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Studies about the duration of the humoral and cellular response following the bivalent
booster administration are still scarce. We aimed at assessing the humoral and cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the Quality of Studies Assessing COVID-19 Vaccine Neutralizing Antibody Immunogenicity

M Katzmarzyk, R Naughton, I Sitaras, H Jacobsen… - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Objective: COVID-19 vaccine-neutralizing antibodies provide early data on potential vaccine
effectiveness, but their usefulness depends on study reliability and reporting quality …

Predicting COVID-19 booster immunogenicity against future SARS-CoV-2 variants and the benefits of vaccine updates

D Cromer, A Reynaldi, A Mitchell, TE Schlub… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The ongoing evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to a move to update vaccine
antigens in 2022 and 2023. These updated antigens were chosen and approved based …

SARS-CoV-2 mucosal neutralising immunity after vaccination

EJ Carr, G Dowgier, D Greenwood… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Mucosal vaccines that prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection might provide benefits beyond existing
intramuscularly administered vaccines: through enhanced individual-level protection against …

Real-time estimation of immunological responses against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants in the UK: a mathematical modelling study

TW Russell, H Townsley, J Hellewell… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2025 - thelancet.com
Background The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and COVID-19 vaccination have
resulted in complex exposure histories. Rapid assessment of the effects of these exposures …

A bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine elicited broad immune responses and protection against Omicron subvariants infection

J Liu, L Wang, A Kurtesi, P Budylowski, KG Potts… - npj Vaccines, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract Continuously emerging SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants pose a threat thwarting
the effectiveness of approved COVID-19 vaccines. Especially, the protection breadth and …

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 subgenomic RNAs that enhance viral fitness and immune evasion

HV Mears, GR Young, T Sanderson, R Harvey… - PLoS …, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Coronaviruses express their structural and accessory genes via a set of subgenomic RNAs,
whose synthesis is directed by transcription regulatory sequences (TRSs) in the 5 …

Divergent performance of vaccines in the UK autumn 2023 COVID-19 booster campaign

M Shawe-Taylor, D Greenwood, A Hobbs, G Dowgier… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
On Dec 13, 2023, WHO's Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition
(TAG-CO-VAC) reiterated their guidance1 from May, 2023, recommending updating …