Protective mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 after heterologous systemic prime-mucosal boost immunization

oleh: Dennis Lapuente, Jana Fuchs, Jonas Willar, Ana Vieira Antão, Valentina Eberlein, Nadja Uhlig, Leila Issmail, Anna Schmidt, Friederike Oltmanns, Antonia Sophia Peter, Sandra Mueller-Schmucker, Pascal Irrgang, Kirsten Fraedrich, Andrea Cara, Markus Hoffmann, Stefan Pöhlmann, Armin Ensser, Cordula Pertl, Torsten Willert, Christian Thirion, Thomas Grunwald, Klaus Überla, Matthias Tenbusch

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01

Deskripsi

While current COVID-19 vaccines provide certain protection, more effective vaccination strategies are still desirable. Here the authors show, using mouse vaccination models, that priming with a systemic mRNA and boosting with an intranasal adenoviral vector vaccine induces comprehensive T cell and mucosal immunity.