@article{9fe0a680bd49478f84716b456d56fb99,
title = "Humoral and cellular immune response dynamics in Japanese healthcare workers up to six months after receiving a third dose of BNT162b2 monovalent vaccine",
abstract = "Longitudinal data on the immune response from the first dose to several months after the third dose of COVID-19 vaccine are limited. We analyzed the immune response in 406 Japanese healthcare workers who received at least three doses of vaccine. The geometric mean anti-receptor binding domain IgG antibody titers and antigen-stimulated T-cell interferon-gamma levels after 6 months after receiving a third dose were similar to those 8 weeks after receiving a second dose. Humoral and cellular immunity induced by the third dose was more durable than that induced by the second dose. UMIN Clinical Trials Registry ID: UMIN000043340.",
keywords = "Antibody, BNT162b2, COVID-19 vaccine, Cellular immunity, Third dose",
author = "Yoshifumi Uwamino and Takashi Yokoyama and Yasunori Sato and Ayako Shibata and Toshinobu Kurafuji and Akiko Tanabe and Masayo Noguchi and Tomoko Arai and Akemi Ohno and Hiromitsu Yokota and Ho Namkoong and Tomoyasu Nishimura and Kenjiro Kosaki and Naoki Hasegawa and Masatoshi Wakui and Mitsuru Murata and Hiromichi Matsushita",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [grant number: JP21fk0108469], the Keio University School of Medicine, and the Public Foundation of the Vaccination Research Center, Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2023",
month = feb,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.01.049",
language = "English",
volume = "41",
pages = "1545--1549",
journal = "Vaccine",
issn = "0264-410X",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "9",
}