Attapon Cheepsattayakorn1,3*, Ruangrong Cheepsattayakorn2 and Porntep Siriwanarangsun3
110th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Disease Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
3Faculty of Medicine, Western University, Pathumtani Province, Thailand
*Corresponding Author: Attapon Cheepsattayakorn, 10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Disease Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Received: April 25, 2022; Published: April 29, 2022
A recent study in South Africa demonstrated that IgG seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) ranged from 56.2% (95% confidential interval (CI), 52.6 to 59.7) among children with age younger than 12 years to 79.7% (95% CI, 77.6 to 81.5) among adults with age older than 50 years [1]. Female patients were higher IgG-seroprevalence levels than male cases [1]. The Omicron variant was predominant during the latest COVID-19-pandemic fourth wave in this country with one month from the onset to the peak of this latest wave, compared to the previous third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas the incidences of hospital admission, excess death attributable to COVID-19 in this latest fourth wave were consistently lower than the earlier waves’ incidences [1]. In Omicron variant that mainly affecting spike protein, cell-mediated immunity is likely to be more durable than neutralizing-antibody-mediated immunity in the small mutation context [2], whereas natural infection induces cell-mediated immunity targeting membrane protein, nucleocapsid protein, and spike protein [3] and long-lived cytotoxic (CD8+) T cells with a half-life of 125 to 255 days [4].
Citation: Attapon Cheepsattayakorn., et al. “COVID-19 Severity with Omicron Variant Infection". Acta Scientific Microbiology 5.5 (2022): 01.
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