Comparison of Waning Antibody Responses After Natural Monkeypox Virus Infection and Mpox Vaccination Beyond 6 Months in South Korea

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Oct 5;11(10):ofae566. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae566. eCollection 2024 Oct.

Abstract

Natural Monkeypox virus infection induced significantly higher neutralizing antibody titers than Jynneos vaccination, with similar antibody decay rates beyond 6 months. Jynneos recipients with prior smallpox vaccination showed antibody levels comparable to mpox convalescents.

Keywords: Jynneos; Modified Vaccinia Ankara; monkeypox virus; mpox.