Role Of Vaccines Against COVID-19 Pandemic

Professor Dr Batool Mutar Mahdi; Dr Mustafa Almukhtar

doi:10.1016/j.slasd.2023.07.002

Role Of Vaccines Against COVID-19 Pandemic

SLAS Discov. 2023 Dec;28(8):355-357. doi: 10.1016/j.slasd.2023.07.002. Epub 2023 Jul 18.

Authors

Professor Dr Batool Mutar Mahdi¹, Dr Mustafa Almukhtar²

Affiliations

¹ Consultant Clinical Immunology, Head of HLA Research Unit, Department of Microbiology, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. Electronic address: abas_susan@yahoo.com.
² Harlem Medical Center, Illinois, USA.

PMID: 37473842
DOI: 10.1016/j.slasd.2023.07.002

Abstract

Coronaviruses (CoV) are one of the largest families of viruses that infect human beings causing mild common cold or severe diseases like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A new strain emerged known as novel coronavirus (nCoV) causing fatal respiratory failure disease. This virus was characterized by rapid spread from asymptomatic and symptomatic patients to healthy people. Thus, vaccine should be considered as one of the important protective measures to control the spread of this virus. One of the challenges to this vaccine is the high mutation rate of this virus and appearance of new strains. Therefore, vaccine should stimulate the immune system in order to overcome the emergence of new strain of this virus.

Keywords: COVID; Immunity; Vaccine.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

COVID-19 Vaccines
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Humans
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus* / genetics
SARS-CoV-2

Substances

COVID-19 Vaccines