Nature Communications (May 2022)

Heterologous immunization with inactivated vaccine followed by mRNA-booster elicits strong immunity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

  • Fanglei Zuo,
  • Hassan Abolhassani,
  • Likun Du,
  • Antonio Piralla,
  • Federico Bertoglio,
  • Leire de Campos-Mata,
  • Hui Wan,
  • Maren Schubert,
  • Irene Cassaniti,
  • Yating Wang,
  • Josè Camilla Sammartino,
  • Rui Sun,
  • Stelios Vlachiotis,
  • Federica Bergami,
  • Makiko Kumagai-Braesch,
  • Juni Andréll,
  • Zhaoxia Zhang,
  • Yintong Xue,
  • Esther Veronika Wenzel,
  • Luigi Calzolai,
  • Luca Varani,
  • Nima Rezaei,
  • Zahra Chavoshzadeh,
  • Fausto Baldanti,
  • Michael Hust,
  • Lennart Hammarström,
  • Harold Marcotte,
  • Qiang Pan-Hammarström

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30340-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) raises concerns regarding vaccine efficacy. Here, the authors evaluate the neutralizing antibody, and cellular response elicited following inactivated vaccine immunization, and mRNA booster, against the Omicron variant.