A Promising Vaccination Strategy against COVID-19 on the Horizon : Heterologous Immunization

To overcome the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination campaigns are the highest priority of majority of countries. Limited supply and worldwide disproportionate availability issues for the approved vaccines, together with concerns about rare side-effects have recently initiated the switch to heterologous vaccination, commonly known as mixing of vaccines. The COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in the general population. However, none of the vaccines is 100% efficacious or effective, with variants posing more challenges, resulting in breakthrough cases. This review summarizes the current knowledge of immune responses to variants of concern (VOC) and breakthrough infections. Furthermore, we discuss the scope of heterologous vaccination and future strategies to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, including fractionation of vaccine doses and alternative route of vaccination.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Journal of microbiology and biotechnology - 31(2021), 12 vom: 28. Dez., Seite 1601-1614

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mattoo, Sameer-Ul-Salam [VerfasserIn]
Myoung, Jinjong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 Vaccines
Heterologus vaccination
Hybrid immunity
Journal Article
Review
SARS-CoV-2
Variants of concern

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.01.2022

Date Revised 14.12.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4014/jmb.2111.11026

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334856477