This work was supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(M23008);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFE0207300);Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Commission(Z211100002521021);the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding(2022-PUMCH-B-124);Key Research and Development Plan of Hebei Province,Special Health Innovation Project(22377744D).
Chronic liver disease(CLD)entails elevated risk of COVID-19 severity and mortality.The effectiveness of the booster dose of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in stimulating antibody response in CLD patients is unclear.Th...
supported by the Science and Technology Program of Zhejiang Province (#2022C03017);Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province (#2021C03044);Major Health Science and Technology Projects of Zhejiang Province (#WKJ-ZJ-2105);National Key R&D Program of China (#2021YFC2301200).
Dear Editor,The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic has resulted in 763 million cases and over 6 million deaths as of April 2023.Given the high prevalence and widespread distribution of coronaviruses,the geneti...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82172256,92169105,81861138044,and M-0060);the National Scientific and Technological Major Project of China(2017ZX10202203);the Sino-German Virtual Institute for Viral Immunology.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)vaccine is one of the most effective weapons to fight the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic(Lazarus et al.,2022).Among all SARS-CoV-2 vaccines ge...
funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(grant No.2021YFC2600202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 31872487).
Many studies suggest that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)can infect various animals and transmit among animals,and even to humans,posing a threat to humans and animals.There is an urgent ne...
supported by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council MOH-000019(MOH-Sta R17Nov-0001) grant
How do we measure vaccine efficacy? The strictest but also easiest parameter to determine vaccine efficacy is its ability to block infection.Indeed, if a vaccine is able to block infection, this necessarily follows th...
supported by grants from the Key Research and Development Project of Guangdong Province(202020012624900001);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830097,31802174 and 82041025);the Key Research and Development Project of Guangdong Province(2020B1111320001);the Special fund for the Scientific innovation strategy-construction ofhigh level Academyof Agriculture Science-Prominent Talents(R2020PY-JC001)。
Dear Editor,In the absence of vaccine,the mounting second wave of COVID-19 infections worldwide calls for the rapid development of human neutralizing antibodies to prevent and treat COVID-19(Lee et al.2020).Considerin...
sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81672018);the National 13th Five-Year Grand Program on Key Infectious Disease Control(2017ZX10202102);the 13th Five-Year National Science and Technology Major Project for infectious Diseases(2017ZX10305501-002);Shanghai Pujiang Program(19PJ1409100);the Technology Service Platform for Detecting High level Biological Safety Pathogenic Microorganism Supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(18DZ2293000)。
Hand,foot,and mouth disease(HFMD)recently emerged as a global public threat.The licensure of inactivated enterovirus A71(EV-A71)vaccine was the first step in using a vaccine to control HFMD.New challenges arise from c...
supported by the Chinese Medicine Foundation and Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Virology,Wuhan University (No.2016KF010)
In 2003,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV)emerged in Guangdong Province,China,infected more than 8000 individuals,and resulted in a 10%mortality rate(Rota et al.2003).Later,in 2012,a novel CoV...
the China National"863"Program(Approval No.2011AA10A212);Special Fund for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest(ApprovalNo.201203056)
Potency is one of the most important indexes of inactivated vaccines.A number of methods have been established to assay the potency,of which the NIH test and single-dose mouse protection test are the "prescribed metho...