American Journal of BioScience

Special Issue

Vaccine-Related Humoral Immunity in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Submission Deadline: Dec. 25, 2022
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Hatice Hale Gümüş
About This Special Issue
Radical changes in population density, travel habits around the world, climate change, ecosystem degradation are leading to the emergence of old and new pathogens that pose a risk of pandemic threats. Cases of an unidentified form of viral pneumonia werefirst re-ported in Wuhan city, Hubei province, China, in December 2019. On January 7, 2020, a scientific research institution in China announced that the viral pneumonia was acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), later it was called Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization. The current pandemic, COVID-19 has led to 243.7 million laboratory-confirmed cases, and more than 4.9 million deaths, until October 25, 2021. In order to overcome the pandemic, it is very important for scientists to work collectively and share up-to-date data, as well as adequate vaccination, detection and follow-up of new variants all over the world. There are currently more than 200 preclinical and clinical vaccine candidates with various antigen delivery systems such as non-replicating viral vector, protein subunit, messenger RNA (mRNA), and inactivated virus. But a limited number of them (currently, six), which have their own advantages and disadvantages, had emergency use. The aim of this special issue is to determine antibody responses status against various antigen delivery systems of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, vaccination status worldwide, and effectiveness in real world settings.

Keywords:

  1. COVID-19
  2. SARS-CoV-2
  3. Vaccines
  4. Antibody response
  5. Laboratory tests
  6. Humoral Immunity
Lead Guest Editor
  • Hatice Hale Gümüş

    Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Adana, Turkey

Guest Editors
  • Yeşim Kürekçi,

    Arnavutköy State Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, İstanbul, Turkey