Journal: Frontiers in Medicine
Article Title: Vaccination with inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine TURKOVAC induces durable humoral and cellular immune responses up to 8 months
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1524393
Figure Lengend Snippet: Memory B cell responses induced by TURKOVAC vaccination. The absolute number of spike-specific memory B cells (A) , IgM+ (B) , and IgG+ (C) B cells per 5 × 10 5 PBMCs before and after vaccinations. Red, green, and blue indicate all volunteers, volunteers with two doses of vaccination, and volunteers with three doses of vaccination, respectively. Values are expressed as arithmetic mean and standard deviation; p † indicates the significance for between-group comparisons; p ‡ indicates the significance for within-group comparisons. All baseline values were one (1.00) before the transformation. Standard deviation statistic was not calculated, thus this time point was not included in within-group comparisons. Since shifted logarithmic transformation (log(x + 1)) was applied, this quantity, as well as the mean statistic, is computed as 0.30. Significant p values are shown in bold.
Article Snippet: Comparison of our results with those of BioNTech and other vaccine platforms indicates that immunization with TURKOVAC is successfully able to induce the expansion of spike-specific B cell clones and memory B cells, which may persist for up to 8 months post-vaccination.
Techniques: Standard Deviation, Transformation Assay