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. 2023 Mar;23(3):276-277.
doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00005-1. Epub 2023 Feb 1.

BNT162b2 antigen dose and SARS-CoV-2 omicron infection in adolescents

Hiam Chemaitelly  1 , Houssein H Ayoub  2 , Peter Coyle  3 , Patrick Tang  4 , Hadi M Yassine  5 , Asmaa A Al Thani  5 , Hebah A Al-Khatib  5 , Mohammad R Hasan  4 , Zaina Al-Kanaani  3 , Einas Al-Kuwari  3 , Andrew Jeremijenko  3 , Anvar Hassan Kaleeckal  3 , Ali Nizar Latif  3 , Riyazuddin Mohammad Shaik  3 , Hanan F Abdul-Rahim  6 , Gheyath K Nasrallah  5 , Mohamed Ghaith Al-Kuwari  7 , Hamad Eid Al-Romaihi  8 , Adeel A Butt  3 , Mohamed H Al-Thani  8 , Abdullatif Al-Khal  3 , Roberto Bertollini  8 , Laith J Abu-Raddad  9
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BNT162b2 antigen dose and SARS-CoV-2 omicron infection in adolescents

Hiam Chemaitelly et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Mar.
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Conflict of interest statement

AAB has received institutional grant funding from Gilead Sciences unrelated to the work presented in this Correspondence. All other authors declare no competing interests. HC and LJA-R accessed and verified the raw data used in this study; not all authors were permitted to access the data used in this study because of privacy and confidentiality laws. We are grateful for support from the Biomedical Research Program and the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Biomathematics Research Core at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar; the Qatar Ministry of Public Health; Hamad Medical Corporation; and Sidra Medicine. We are also grateful for the Qatar Genome Programme and Qatar University Biomedical Research Center for institutional support for the reagents needed for the viral genome sequencing.

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Cumulative incidence of infection with the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in adolescents vaccinated with two doses of 30 μg BNT162b2 versus two doses of 10 μg BNT162b2
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