Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Quantitative evaluation of protective antibody response induced by hepatitis E vaccine in humans

  • Gui-Ping Wen,
  • Linling He,
  • Zi-Min Tang,
  • Si-Ling Wang,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Yuan-Zhi Chen,
  • Xiaohe Lin,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Jia-Xin Chen,
  • Dong Ying,
  • Zi-Hao Chen,
  • Ying-Bin Wang,
  • Wen-Xin Luo,
  • Shou-Jie Huang,
  • Shao-Wei Li,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Zi-Zheng Zheng,
  • Jiang Zhu,
  • Ning-Shao Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17737-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The authors provide a comprehensive characterization of the human antibody response to a licensed hepatitis E virus (HEV) vaccine, Hecolin, in four individuals over the course of six months post vaccination. They demonstrate diverse patterns of antibody response underlying the vaccine protection.