mRNA vaccine booster dose antibodies – quantity not quality

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“These results suggest that boosting vaccinated individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines would produce a quantitative increase in plasma neutralizing activity but not the qualitative advantage against variants obtained by vaccinating convalescent individuals.”

Biorxiv preprint: Antibody Evolution after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination

 

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** This post was originally published on August 10, 2021 **