Vaccination Strategies: Mixing Paths Versus Matching Tracks
Achilleas Livieratos1, Charalambos Gogos2, Iason Thomas3,4
1Independent Researcher, 15238 Athens, Greece.
Vaccines
|April 23, 2025
Abstract:
Vaccination strategies play a pivotal role in achieving broad and robust immune protection. With the advent of new technologies and challenges posed by emerging infectious diseases such as SARS-CoV-2, evaluating the efficacy of homologous (matching tracks) and heterologous (mixing paths) vaccination regimens is critical. This article explores mechanistic insights and empirical evidence on the benefits and limitations of these approaches.
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