News-Medical.Net July 21, 2024
In a recent study published in the journal Allergy, a team of researchers in Austria conducted a longitudinal analysis among individuals who had not been vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to understand the changes in humoral and cellular immunity over ten months after the first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most severe public health calamities in the last decade, causing global morbidity and mortality in the millions. Furthermore, emerging research indicates that the disease causes long-term sequelae lasting months after recovering from the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. These post-COVID-19 symptoms, also called post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or long coronavirus disease (long COVID), impact various organ systems other than...