While vaccines are one of the most powerful public health tools for protecting against infectious disease, not everybody is conferred the same level of protection. Many factors determine whether an individual responding to vaccination will generate an effective response, including specific biomarkers within a person's immune system, but until now there has been no evidence showing whether these factors were universal across a wide range of vaccines.
Many factors determine whether an individual responding to vaccination will generate an effective response, including specific biomarkers within a person's immune system.