Association between history of HBV vaccine response and anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike antibody response to the BioNTech/Pfizer’s BNT162b2 mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine among healthcare workers in Japan: A prospective observational study

• Momoko Iwamoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan, Department of Emergency and General Internal Medicine, Rakuwakai Marutamachi Hospital, Kyoto, Nakagyo Ward, Japan

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• Akira Ukimura ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akira.ukimura@ompu.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan, Infection Control Center, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-867X

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• Taku Ogawa,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of General Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan, Infection Control Center, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Fumiko Kawanishi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Infection Control Center, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Naofumi Osaka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Mari Kubota,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Tatsuhiko Mori,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Health Administration Center Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Ritsuko Sawamura,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Health Administration Center Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Masami Nishihara,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Tomio Suzuki,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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• Kazuhisa Uchiyama

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan, Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan

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