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Comment
. 2021 Jun;76(6):1943-1944.
doi: 10.1111/all.14761.

COVID-19 vaccines and the role of other potential allergenic components different from PEG. A reply to: "Other excipients than PEG might cause serious hypersensitivity reactions in COVID-19 vaccines"

Beatriz Cabanillas  1 , Cezmi A Akdis  2   3 , Natalija Novak  4
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COVID-19 vaccines and the role of other potential allergenic components different from PEG. A reply to: "Other excipients than PEG might cause serious hypersensitivity reactions in COVID-19 vaccines"

Beatriz Cabanillas et al. Allergy. 2021 Jun.
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Conflict of interest statement

CA reports grants from Allergopharma, Idorsia, Swiss National Science Foundation, Christine Kühne‐Center for Allergy Research and Education, European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Cure, Novartis Research Institutes, AstraZeneca, SciBase, advisory role for Sanofi/Regeneron, GlaxoSmithKline, SciBase, and Novartis, outside the submitted work. NN and BC declare no conflicts of interest.

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FIGURE 1
Active components and excipients listed in BNT162b2, mRNA‐1273, and AZD1222 vaccines. The principles of the PEGylated‐lipid nanoparticles as a delivery system for the mRNA in BNT162b2, mRNA‐1273 vaccines are depicted in the upper part together to the replication‐deficient adenovirus ChAdOx1 vector containing the gene of the glycoprotein spike (S) antigen of SARS‐CoV‐2 for the AZD1222 vaccine. Potential triggers of allergic reactions are indicated in red color in the excipient lists of each vaccine
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