Getting your first COVID vaccine when you've never had the virus seems to turn on key parts of your immune system that help fight off infections, especially by boosting certain immune cells and...

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Proteomic signatures of vaccine-induced and breakthrough infection-induced host responses to SARS-CoV-2.

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2025 Jan 1

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Proteomic signatures of vaccine-induced and breakthrough infection-induced host responses to SARS-CoV-2.

Score: 43

DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126484

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