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Lack of MERS Coronavirus Neutralizing Antibodies in Humans, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
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Lack of MERS Coronavirus Neutralizing Antibodies in Humans, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Stefanie Gierer, Heike Hofmann-Winkler, Waleed H. Albuali, Stephanie Bertram, Abdullah M. Al-Rubaish, Abdullah A. Yousef, Awatif N. Al-Nafaie, Amein K. Al-Ali, Obeid E. Obeid, Khaled R. Alkharsah, …
Emerging infectious diseases, Vol.19(12), pp.2034-2036
01/12/2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1912.130701
PMCID: PMC3840893
PMID: 24274664

Abstract

Immunology Infectious Diseases Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
We used a lentiviral vector bearing the viral spike protein to detect neutralizing antibodies against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in persons from the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. None of the 268 samples tested displayed neutralizing activity, which suggests that MERS-CoV infections in humans are infrequent in this province.
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