Robust generation of neutralising antibodies against Omicron variants following bivalent mRNA booster vaccine in elderly people aged >80 years

Helen Parry, Paul Moss, Grace Uwenedi, Thomas Roberts, Panagiota Sylla, Jonathan Cook, Ahmed Elzaidi, May Lau, Tamsin Drury, Alexander Bray, Soumyajit Mallick, Katie Spencer, Christopher Bentley, Graham Mcilroy, Sam Scott, Nicola Logan, Jianmin Zuo, Brian Willett, Paul Moss*

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Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Infection
Early online date1 Sept 2023
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 1 Sept 2023

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Acknowledgments:
We thank Dr. Rory Meade, Dr. Philip Saunders, Dr. Rosie Laugharne, Dr. Tom Groves, Dr. Parjit Dhillon, Dr. Eleanor Brodie, and the patients and staff at Harborne Medical Practice, Lordswod Medical Group, Ridgacre House Surgery, Northumberland House Surgery, New Road Surgery, Lapal Medical Practice, and Wychbury Medical Group. We also thank Millie Manning, Danielle Sutherland for their help in recruitment. We are grateful for support from Rajinder Jeet, Shahada Rahman Joli, Anindita Roy and Ayaz Karim with phlebotomy services. This work was supported by the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC) MR/V028448/1 awarded to PM, in addition to funding from DHSC/UKRI and the National Core Studies Immunity programme MC_PC_20031 and MC_PC_20060 awarded to PM. Additional support to B.W. from MRC (MC_UU_00034/6P).

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