Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

May 24, 2021

Single-Dose BNT162b2 MRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Significantly Boosts Neutralizing Antibody Response in Health Care Workers Recovering from Asymptomatic or Mild Natural SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Category:

Topic:

Keywords (Tags):

  • Among healthcare workers (HCW) who had previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and had mild or no symptoms (n = 41), one dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine resulted in higher levels of neutralizing antibody titers than those found in HCW who had received two doses of the vaccine (n = 16) but had never been infected. 

Vicenti et al. (May 2021). Single-Dose BNT162b2 MRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Significantly Boosts Neutralizing Antibody Response in Health Care Workers Recovering from Asymptomatic or Mild Natural SARS-CoV-2 Infection. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.05.033