Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Repeat vaccination reduces antibody affinity maturation across different influenza vaccine platforms in humans

  • Surender Khurana,
  • Megan Hahn,
  • Elizabeth M. Coyle,
  • Lisa R. King,
  • Tsai-Lien Lin,
  • John Treanor,
  • Andrea Sant,
  • Hana Golding

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11296-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Here, Khurana et al. report the results of a phase 4 clinical trial with three FDA approved influenza vaccines and show that repeat influenza vaccination results in reduced antibody affinity maturation to hemagglutinin domain 1 irrespective of vaccine platform.