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Frontiers in Medical Science Research, 2022, 4(12); doi: 10.25236/FMSR.2022.041206.

Development of COVID-19 Recombinant Subunit Vaccine and Adjuvant

Author(s)

Xin Zhao1, Lianyan Wang2, Yanhua Zhu1

Corresponding Author:
Yanhua Zhu
Affiliation(s)

1Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, 150000, Heilongjiang, China

2Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

At present, vaccination is the only effective and low-cost way to prevent and treat COVID-19. At present, the vaccines vaccinated on a large scale are inactivated COVID-19 vaccines, which have the risk of insufficient immunogenicity, low neutralizing antibody production level and short maintenance time, and incomplete pathogen inactivation leading to adverse reactions. The recombinant subunit vaccine can effectively overcome the problem of poor safety of inactivated virus vaccines by using immune epitope proteins or peptides as recognition epitopes, and with the assistance of appropriate adjuvants, it can produce high levels of neutralizing antibodies and maintain good immune memory. This paper will review the application of recombinant protein antigen of COVID-19 virus and various adjuvants, and prospect the future application of recombinant protein vaccine.

Keywords

COVID-19, Subunit vaccine, Adjuvant

Cite This Paper

Xin Zhao, Lianyan Wang, Yanhua Zhu. Development of COVID-19 Recombinant Subunit Vaccine and Adjuvant. Frontiers in Medical Science Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 12: 35-40. https://doi.org/10.25236/FMSR.2022.041206.

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