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Viral-Induced Enhanced Disease Illness

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submitted on 2024-03-04, 08:51 and posted on 2024-03-04, 08:52 authored by Maria K. Smatti, Asmaa A. Al Thani, Hadi M. Yassine

Understanding immune responses to viral infections is crucial to progress in the quest for effective infection prevention and control. The host immunity involves various mechanisms to combat viral infections. Under certain circumstances, a viral infection or vaccination may result in a subverted immune system, which may lead to an exacerbated illness. Clinical evidence of enhanced illness by preexisting antibodies from vaccination, infection or maternal passive immunity is available for several viruses and is presumptively proposed for other viruses. Multiple mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. It has been confirmed that certain infection- and/or vaccine-induced immunity could exacerbate viral infectivity in Fc receptor- or complement bearing cells- mediated mechanisms. Considering that antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) is a major obstacle in vaccine development, there are continues efforts to understand the underlying mechanisms through identification of the epitopes and antibodies responsible for disease enhancement or protection. This review discusses the recent findings on virally induced ADE, and highlights the potential mechanisms leading to this condition.

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Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02991

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Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

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  • English

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Frontiers

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  • 2018

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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  • Qatar University
  • Biomedical Research Center - QU

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