{"title":"Recovery of Antibody Immunity After a Resurgence of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections","authors":"Frederic Reicherz, Marina Viñeta Paramo, Jeffrey N Bone, Alexanne Lavoie, Sirui Li, Liam Golding, Agatha Jassem, Allison Watts, Bahaa Abu-Raya, Pascal M Lavoie","doi":"10.1093/infdis/jiaf101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Longitudinal measurements of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunity over 4 winter seasons reveal that viral neutralization titers, RSV prefusion F protein (pre-F)–specific immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels, and RSV antibody–dependent cellular phagocytosis function gradually returned to prepandemic levels in female healthcare and school workers of childbearing age after 2 winter seasons, following the resurgence of RSV cases in the Vancouver metropolitan region (British Columbia, Canada). In contrast, pre-F IgG avidity profiles remained unchanged. These findings support the notion that repeated viral infections are necessary to maintain high RSV antibody levels in the population.","PeriodicalId":501010,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Infectious Diseases","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of Infectious Diseases","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Longitudinal measurements of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunity over 4 winter seasons reveal that viral neutralization titers, RSV prefusion F protein (pre-F)–specific immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin G (IgG) levels, and RSV antibody–dependent cellular phagocytosis function gradually returned to prepandemic levels in female healthcare and school workers of childbearing age after 2 winter seasons, following the resurgence of RSV cases in the Vancouver metropolitan region (British Columbia, Canada). In contrast, pre-F IgG avidity profiles remained unchanged. These findings support the notion that repeated viral infections are necessary to maintain high RSV antibody levels in the population.