The germinal centre B cell response to SARS-CoV-2

BJ Laidlaw, AH Ellebedy - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The germinal centre (GC) response is critical for the generation of affinity-matured plasma
cells and memory B cells capable of mediating long-term protective immunity …

Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic

KKW To, S Sridhar, KHY Chiu, DLL Hung… - Emerging microbes & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Without modern medical management and vaccines, the severity of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern partially escape humoral but not T cell responses in COVID-19 convalescent donors and vaccine recipients

D Geers, MC Shamier, S Bogers, G den Hartog… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants harboring mutations in the spike (S) protein has
raised concern about potential immune escape. Here, we studied humoral and cellular …

Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 variants to neutralization by monoclonal and serum-derived polyclonal antibodies

RE Chen, X Zhang, JB Case, ES Winkler, Y Liu… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the global
COVID-19 pandemic. Rapidly spreading SARS-CoV-2 variants may jeopardize newly …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants escape neutralization by vaccine-induced humoral immunity

WF Garcia-Beltran, EC Lam, KS Denis, AD Nitido… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Vaccination elicits immune responses capable of potently neutralizing SARS-CoV-2.
However, ongoing surveillance has revealed the emergence of variants harboring mutations …

Age-dependent immune response to the Biontech/Pfizer BNT162b2 coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination

L Müller, M Andrée, W Moskorz, I Drexler… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic
has led to the development of various vaccines. Real-life data on immune responses elicited …

Effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine in older adults during a gamma variant associated epidemic of covid-19 in Brazil: test negative case-control study

OT Ranzani, MDT Hitchings, M Dorion, TL D'Agostini… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To estimate the effectiveness of the inactivated whole virus vaccine, CoronaVac
(Sinovac Biotech), against symptomatic covid-19 in the elderly population of São Paulo …

SARS-CoV-2 vaccines based on the spike glycoprotein and implications of new viral variants

D Martínez-Flores, J Zepeda-Cervantes… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus 19 Disease (COVID-19) originating in the province of Wuhan, China in 2019, is
caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), whose …

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and impact in global vaccination programs against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

CE Gómez, B Perdiguero, M Esteban - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants
in different continents is causing a major concern in human global health. These variants …

Immune evasion of SARS-CoV-2 emerging variants: what have we learnt so far?

I Lazarevic, V Pravica, D Miljanovic, M Cupic - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite the slow evolutionary rate of SARS-CoV-2 relative to other RNA viruses, its massive
and rapid transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled it to acquire significant …