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Yukiya Kurahashi1, Koichi Furukawa1, Silvia Sutandhio1
1Division of Clinical Virology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Abstract:
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant omicron is now under investigation. We evaluated cross-neutralizing activity against omicron in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) convalescent patients (n = 23) who had received 2 doses of an mRNA vaccination (BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273). Intriguingly, after the second vaccination, the neutralizing antibody titers of subjects against SARS-CoV-2 variants, including omicron, all became seropositive, and significant fold-increases (21.1-52.0) were seen regardless of the disease severity. Our findings thus demonstrate that 2 doses of mRNA vaccination to SARS-CoV-2 convalescent patients can induce cross-neutralizing activity against omicron.
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