Back

Neutralizing Antibody Responses After mRNA COVID-19 Booster Vaccination are Unaffected by Parasitemia in a Malaria-Endemic Setting

Samandari, T.; Achola, M.; Hutter, J. N.; Mboya, G.; Otieno, W.; Kee, J. J.; Huang, Y.; Aponte, J. J.; Ockenhouse, C. F.; Lee, C. K.; Polakowski, L. L. K.; Yacovone, M.; Tapley, A.; Dadabhai, S.; Mkhize, N. N.; Kaldine, H.; Bhebhe, S.; Moore, P.; Hural, J.; Garrett, N.; Kublin, J.

2025-04-16 infectious diseases
10.1101/2025.04.12.25325718 medRxiv
Show abstract

Subclinical malaria may reduce the immunogenicity of mRNA vaccines. We evaluated neutralizing antibody responses in adults with (n=87) and without (n=221) PCR-confirmed Plasmodium falciparum who received a COVID-19 booster. Similar boosted ID50 geometric mean titers >22,000 in parasitemic and non-parasitemic participants suggests that COVID-19 mRNA vaccine responses are not impaired.

Matching journals

The top 7 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.