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Record W4406324750 · doi:10.1099/acmi.0.000791.v3

Immunogenicity of bivalent versus monovalent mRNA booster vaccination among adult paramedics in Canada who had received three prior mRNA wild-type doses

2025· article· en· W4406324750 on OpenAlex
Michael Asamoah-Boaheng, David A. Goldfarb, Iryna Kayda, Justin Yap, Tracy L Kirkham, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Paul A. Demers, Jeffrey M. Copp, Brian Grunau

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueAccess Microbiology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoOccupational Cancer Research CentreResearch CanadaSt. Paul's HospitalIsland HealthPublic Health OntarioUniversity of British Columbia
FundersMichael Smith Health Research BCGovernment of Canada
KeywordsImmunogenicityBivalent (engine)MedicineAntigenBooster doseVaccinationInternal medicineVirologyImmunologyAndrologyChemistryImmunization

Abstract

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Introduction. Comparative immunogenicity from different mRNA booster vaccines (directed at WT, BA.1 or BA.4/5 antigens) remains unclear. Methods. We included blood samples from adult paramedics who received three mRNA WT-directed vaccines plus a fourth dose of the following: (1) WT monovalent, (2) Moderna BA.1-WT bivalent or (3) Pfizer BA.4/5 WT bivalent vaccine. The primary outcome was angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) inhibition to BA.4/5 antigen. We used optimal pair matching (using age, sex-at-birth, preceding SARS-CoV-2 infection and fourth vaccine-to-blood collection interval) to create balanced groups to individually compare each vaccine type to each other vaccine (overall, within subgroups defined by SARS-CoV-2 infection and after combining BA.1 and BA.4/5 cases). We compared outcomes with the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test. Results. Overall, 158 paramedics (mean age 45 years) were included. ACE2 inhibition was higher for BA.1 compared to WT ( P =0.002); however, no difference was detected between BA.4/5 vs. WT or BA.1 vs. BA.4/5. Among cases with preceding SARS-CoV-2, there were no detected between-group differences. Among cases without preceding SARS-CoV-2, the only detected difference was BA.1>WT ( P =0.003). BA.1 and BA.4/5 cases combined had higher ACE2 inhibition than WT ( P =0.003). Conclusion. Omicron-directed vaccines appear to improve Omicron-specific immunogenicity; however, this appears limited to SARS-CoV-2-naive individuals.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.250
Threshold uncertainty score0.839

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it