Google Scholar reports about 8.390 uses of the phrase "sterilizing immunity"; the frequency suggests it is a common phrase: > Sterilizing immunity is a unique

Google Scholar reports about 8.390 uses of the phrase "sterilizing immunity"; the frequency suggests it is a common phrase: > Sterilizing immunity is a unique immune status, which prevents effective virus infection into the host. It is different from the immunity that allows infection but with subsequent successful eradication of the virus [1] When people talk about "sterilizing vaccines", they mean "vaccines that induce sterilizing immunity", which means "vaccines which prevent effective virus infection into the host". [1] Influenza: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32973 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32973