Dissecting the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections in blood donors with pauci-or asymptomatic COVID-19 disease course at initial infection

AD Hoeggerl, V Nunhofer, L Weidner, W Lauth… - Infectious …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Understanding the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections is crucial for public
health policy, vaccine development, and long-term disease management. However, data on …

Persistence of naturally acquired and functional SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in blood donors one year after infection

V Nunhofer, L Weidner, AD Hoeggerl, G Zimmermann… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The developmental course of antibodies produced after a SARS-CoV-2 infection has been
insufficiently investigated so far. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the …

Distinct age-specific SARS-CoV-2 IgG decay kinetics following natural infection

CP Sjaarda, E Moslinger, K Tozer, RI Colautti… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 can be observed as early as 14 days post-
infection, but little is known about the stability of antibody levels over time. Here we evaluate …

Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology persistence over time in COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors

V De Giorgi, KA West, AN Henning, L Chen… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background Characterizing the kinetics of the antibody response to SARS□ CoV□ 2 is of
critical importance to developing strategies that may mitigate the public health burden of …

Naturally acquired SARS-CoV-2 immunity persists for up to 11 months following infection

V De Giorgi, KA West, AN Henning… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Characterizing the kinetics of the antibody response to severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is of critical importance to developing strategies …

SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in a cohort of 43,000 antibody-positive individuals followed for up to 35 weeks

LJ Abu-Raddad, H Chemaitelly, P Coyle, JA Malek… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background Reinfection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has been documented, raising public health concerns. Risk and incidence rate of …

Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 total immunoglobulins in a series of convalescent plasma and blood donors

MC Martin, A Jimenez, N Ortega, A Parrado, I Page… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The vast majority of COVID-19 cases both symptomatic and asymptomatic
develop immunity after COVID-19 contagion. Whether lasting differences exist between …

Analysis of a German blood donor cohort reveals a high number of undetected SARS-CoV-2 infections and sex-specific differences in humoral immune response

B Fischer, C Knabbe, T Vollmer - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Seroprevalence studies can contribute to a better assessment of the actual incidence of
infection. Since long-term data for Germany are lacking, we determined the seroprevalence …

Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 total antibody is higher in younger Austrian blood donors

L Weidner, V Nunhofer, C Jungbauer, AD Hoeggerl… - Infection, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Frequently the infection with coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can be asymptomatic or
provoke only mild symptoms. These cases often remain unnoticed, so it is difficult to estimate …

Seroprevalence, waning and correlates of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in tyrol, austria: large-scale study of 35,193 blood donors conducted between June 2020 …

A Siller, L Seekircher, GA Wachter, M Astl, L Tschiderer… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is uncertainty about the seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general
population of Austria and about the waning of antibodies over time. We conducted a …