Evaluation of Vaccine Immunogenicity—Correlates to Real-World Protection: Influenza

Abstract

Recent events highlighted that, despite decades of studying vaccine immunogenicity and efforts toward finding correlates of protection, evaluating real-world vaccine efficacy as well as establishing meaningful licensing criteria still represents a significant challenge. In this paper, we review all aspects of influenza vaccine immunogenicity, including animal and human challenge studies, humoral and cellular immunity parameters, and their potential correlation with real-life protection from disease.

Keywords

• influenza
• vaccine
• immunity
• antibody
• lymphocyte