Diversity of antibody responses after influenza infection or vaccination-Needed or nice to have?

Barbara C Gärtner; Martina Sester

doi:10.1111/ajt.16554

Diversity of antibody responses after influenza infection or vaccination-Needed or nice to have?

Am J Transplant. 2021 Aug;21(8):2631-2632. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16554. Epub 2021 Mar 9.

Authors

Barbara C Gärtner¹, Martina Sester²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
² Department of Transplant and Infection Immunology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.

Abstract

Gärtner and Sester contextualize recent findings on natural and vaccine‐induced immunity towards influenza in transplant recipients including implications for other vaccines. Hirzel et al.'s article is on page 2709.

Keywords: editorial / personal viewpoint; infection and infectious agents - viral; infection and infectious agents - viral: influenza; infectious disease; monitoring: immune; vaccine.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Antibodies, Viral
Antibody Formation
Humans
Influenza, Human* / prevention & control
Vaccination

Substances

Antibodies, Viral