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. 2022 Jul 19;13:4182. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31557-0

Fig. 6. Immunity to endemic HCoV compared to anti-MERS-CoV immunity.

Fig. 6

Reciprocal anti-CoV spike protein antibody titers of a human (H) Coronavirus (CoV) (HCoV)-OC43, b HCoV-229E, c HCoV-HKU1, d HCoV-NL63, e MERS-CoV, and f SARS-CoV (used as control antigen) were measured on Day (D) 0 (D0), pre-vaccination) and D42 via immunofluorescence assay in all participants who completed the primary immunization schedule with MVA-MERS-S on D0 and D28 (n = 23) and unvaccinated controls (n = 6). Low dose (n = 12) and high dose (n = 11) vaccinees are depicted in blue and red, respectively, unvaccinated controls in gray. A titer of <40 (dotted line) was considered negative. While we observed increased anti-MERS-CoV titers on Day 42 compared to baseline, there was no significant increase of anti-HCoV titers. Boxes indicate 25–75 percentile; whiskers are min. to max.; medians are shown as horizonal lines within the boxes. e ***p = 0.001 (LD) and p = 0.001 (HD), assessed via two-sided Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.