Large-scale serosurveillance of COVID-19 in Japan: Acquisition of neutralizing antibodies for Delta but not for Omicron and requirement of booster vaccination to overcome the Omicron's outbreak.

Continuous appearance of SARS-CoV-2 variants and mass vaccination have been intricately influencing on the COVID-19 situation. To elucidate the current status in Japan, we analyzed totally 2,000 sera in August (n = 1,000) and December (n = 1,000) 2021 collected from individuals who underwent a healt...

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Main Authors: Zhenxiao Ren, Mitsuhiro Nishimura, Lidya Handayani Tjan, Koichi Furukawa, Yukiya Kurahashi, Silvia Sutandhio, Kaito Aoki, Natsumi Hasegawa, Jun Arii, Kenichi Uto, Keiji Matsui, Itsuko Sato, Jun Saegusa, Nonoka Godai, Kohei Takeshita, Masaki Yamamoto, Tatsuya Nagashima, Yasuko Mori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266270