Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34352148›Full record

ReviewJournal of internal medicine2022

Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 induced by infection or vaccination.

Xaquin Castro Dopico, Sebastian Ols, Karin Loré, Gunilla B Karlsson Hedestam

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Review in Journal of internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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97citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

97 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Broad neutralizing antibody response of a monomeric spike-based SARS-CoV-2 bivalent vaccine against diverse variants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  17. Vaccination versus natural infection: A review of antibody differentiation techniques.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2025
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37 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xaquin Castro DopicoDepartment of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9005-6774
Sebastian OlsDepartment of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9784-7176
Karin LoréDepartment of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7679-9494
Gunilla B Karlsson HedestamDepartment of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7255-9047

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive immune responses play critical roles in viral clearance and protection against re-infection, and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. What is exceptional is the rapid characterization of the immune response to the virus performed by researchers during the first 20 months of the pandemic. This has given us a more detailed understanding of SARS-CoV-2 compared to many viruses that have been with us for a long time. Furthermore, effective COVID-19 vaccines were developed in record time, and their rollout worldwide is already making a significant difference, although major challenges remain in terms of equal access. The pandemic has engaged scientists and the public alike, and terms such as seroprevalence, neutralizing antibodies, antibody escape and vaccine certificates have become familiar to a broad community. Here, we review key findings concerning B cell and antibody (Ab) responses to SARS-CoV-2, focusing on non-severe cases and anti-spike (S) Ab responses in particular, the latter being central to protective immunity induced by infection or vaccination. The emergence of viral variants that have acquired mutations in S acutely highlights the need for continued characterization of both emerging variants and Ab responses against these during the evolving pathogen-immune system arms race.

Indexed as

ImmunityAntibodies, NeutralizingCOVID-19COVID-19 Serological TestingCOVID-19 VaccinesHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Seroepidemiologic StudiesVaccinationAntibodies, NeutralizingCOVID-19 Vaccinesantibody responsesB cellsCOVID-19population immunitySARS-CoV-2vaccines

Identifiers

PMID34352148
PMCPMC8447342

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