针对SARS-CoV-2的相关性与对感染的保护,以及对令人担忧的变种的保护

Kaiyuan Sun1, Jinal N Bhiman2,3, Stefano Tempia4,5,6

  • 1Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. kaiyuan.sun@nih.gov.

Nature medicine
|July 26, 2024
PubMed
概括

血清中和抗体 (nAbs) 从以前的感染提供部分保护对SARS-CoV-2变种,如三角形和Omicron. 这种保护随着时间的推移而减弱,并且是变种特定的,突出显示了需要更广泛的免疫评估的需要.

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