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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Vaccination and COVID-19: impact on long-COVID.

Gustavo N Guimarães, Natália S Brunetti, Dieila G De Lima, José Luiz Proenca-Modena, Alessandro S Farias

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Gustavo N Guimarães *Autoimmune Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Natália S Brunetti *Autoimmune Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Dieila G De Lima *Autoimmune Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
José Luiz Proenca-Modena *Laboratory of Emerging Viruses, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Alessandro S Farias *Autoimmune Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long- and post-COVID-19 syndromes have emerged as a significant global health challenge, with millions of individuals experiencing persistent or the development of new symptoms after a long period of an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. These symptoms are multisystemic and may indicate changes in the respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems, in addition to prolonged fatigue. Vaccination has played a crucial role in reducing severe disease and mortality, but the impact of the different vaccine combinations on the development and resolution of Long COVID remains a topic of debate. This review synthesizes current evidence on how different vaccine platforms, dosing strategies and booster doses influence the immunological response, protection, incidence, severity, and persistence of Long COVID symptoms. We discuss key immunological mechanisms by which vaccination may modulate and protect post-COVID syndrome outcomes, including its effects on viral clearance, immune response reprogramming, inflammation, and autoimmunity, seeking to combat misinformation and concepts spread by fake news. The review also highlights controversies and research gaps, such as variability in vaccine response among different populations and the role in the selection of more transmissible and virulent SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as the potential differences between vaccine-induced and infection-induced immunity, and the role of pre-existing immune conditions in this scenario.

Indexed as

COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesSARS-CoV-2VaccinationHumansPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeCOVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19immunologyLong-COVIDpost-COVID syndromeSARS-CoV-2vaccine

Identifiers

PMID41346576
PMCPMC12672345

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