Carlos Del Fresno, Juan García-Arriaza, Sarai Martínez-Cano, Ignacio Heras-Murillo, Aitor Jarit-Cabanillas, Joaquín Amores-Iniesta, Paola Brandi, Gillian Dunphy, Carmen Suay-Corredera, Maria Rosaria Pricolo, Natalia Vicente, Andrés López-Perrote, Sofía Cabezudo, Ana González-Corpas, Oscar Llorca, Jorge Alegre-Cebollada, Urtzi Garaigorta, Pablo Gastaminza, Mariano Esteban, David Sancho
COVID-19-specific vaccines are efficient prophylactic weapons against SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, boosting innate responses may represent an innovative way to immediately fight future emerging viral infections or boost vaccines. MV130 is a mucosal immunotherapy, based on a mixture of whole heat-inactivated bacteria, that has shown clinical efficacy against recurrent viral respiratory infections. Herein, we show that the prophylactic intranasal administration of this immunotherapy confers heterologous protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in susceptible K18-hACE2 mice...
2021: Frontiers in Immunology