Antibody Response to Infection and Vaccination
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 27390
Special Issue Editors
Interests: antibody immunotherapy; cancer; virology; neutralizing mechanism; antibody engineering
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Interests: virology; vaccinology; immunology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibodies are a major immune component of our human body against pathogens. Infections or vaccinations elicit antibody responses, which provide protective or sometimes worse effects against reinfections. In addition, the antibody response is a dynamic and diverse process requiring optimal cellular immunity and proper analyzing technologies. Therefore, understanding the antibody response to infection and vaccination is an exciting and critical topic, facilitating the design and development of biomedicines to combat infectious diseases.
This Special Issue aims to cover experimental results, clinical studies, methods, and technology that facilitate understanding antibody response to infection and vaccination. We are pleased to invite you to submit your studies. This Special Issue will publish original research, reviews, perspectives, and other content commissioned from leading scientists in their fields to provide expert and contextualized views of the latest research. Research areas may include (but not be limited to) the following: antibody responses elicited by infection and by different vaccines, antibody neutralization mechanism, antibody-mediated immune pathogenicity, T-B cell interactions, antibody clonal evolution, mucosal antibody responses, broadly neutralizing antibody response, antibody immune escape by pathogens, and technologies and methods for understanding antibody responses. The emphasis is on viruses, but other pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and parasites, are also welcomed.
We hope that this Special Issue serves as a platform for researchers to exchange the latest progress in antibody response to infections and vaccinations.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zhiqiang Ku
Dr. Xiaohua Ye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibody response
- infection
- vaccine
- neutralizing mechanism
- affinity maturation
- T–B cell interactions
- mucosal antibodies
- antibody-mediated effector functions
- antibody-dependent enhancement
- immune escape
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