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Elva Abril

Publications -  5
Citations -  226

Elva Abril is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vaccination & Booster dose. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications receiving 47 citations.

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Obesity may hamper SARS-CoV-2 vaccine immunogenicity

TL;DR: In this paper, the antibody titre changes in correlation with age, gender and BMI after the second dose of BNT162b2 vaccine in a group of 248 healthcare workers (HCW) and showed that females, lean and young people have an increased capacity to mount humoral immune responses compared to males, overweight and the older population.
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Nucleic Acid Sensing Perturbation: How Aberrant Recognition of Self-Nucleic Acids May Contribute to Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Diseases

TL;DR: The roles of nucleic acid receptors in guarding against pathogen invasion, and how the microbial environment could interfere or influence immune sensing in discriminating between self and non-self and how this may contribute to autoimmunity or inflammatory diseases are discussed.