Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies and Vaccine Development
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 25012
Special Issue Editor
Interests: SARS-CoV-2; HIV-1; HPV; vaccine development; vaccine evaluation; immune response; neutralizing antibody; standardization of assay
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Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has been ongoing for more than two years, killing more than 6.5 million people and having an unimaginable impact on people’s lives. Safe, effective, affordable and accessible vaccines are considered an important weapon to end the outbreak. Neutralizing antibodies are important indicators for the evaluation of the effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Standardized in vitro potency methods are urgently needed to evaluate antiviral products in both pre-clinical and clinical phases. In addition, the detection of neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 would be helpful to understand the status of the protective immune response among COVID-19 patients and asymptomatic cases. At present, there are many methods for detecting SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies, including culture live virus neutralization method, recombinant replication virus neutralization method, pseudotyped virus neutralization method, and competition inhibition neutralization antibody detection method. Even if the same type of method is used, specific operations in different laboratories can lead to differences in results. As a result, the neutralizing antibody test results of different vaccines are incomparable, meaning that the immunogenicity of different vaccines cannot be compared horizontally.
To achieve a more holistic understanding of recent scientific knowledge and current trends in SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assay and vaccine development, this Special issue is focused on the recent scientific and technical progresses made in this field. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: (i) recent advances in novel neutralization assay development, (ii) standardization and comparison of different SARS-CoV-2 neutralization assays, (iii) comparison of neutralizing antibody responses induced by different vaccines, and (iv) correlates of protection.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jianhui Nie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- vaccine
- neutralizing antibody
- correlation of protection
- standardization
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