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Volume 19, Number 12—December 2013
Dispatch

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

Stefanie Gierer1, Heike Hofmann-Winkler1, 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, and Stefan Pöhlmann1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany (S. Gierer, H. Hofmann-Winkler, S. Bertram, S. Pöhlmann); University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (W.H. Albuali, A.M. Al-Rubaish, A.A. Yousef, A.N. Al-Nafaie, A.K. Al-Ali, O.E. Obeid, K.R. Alkharsah).

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Analysis of serum samples with known neutralizing activity. Neutralization of transduction driven by the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus spike protein (MERS-S) (A), G protein of vesicular stomatitis virus (B), and S protein of human coronavirus NL63 (NL63-S) (B) were determined as described for Figure 1, except that serum with known reactivity to MERS-S and NL63-S and serum from 2 patients at King Fahd Hospital of the University in Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia, that neutralized NL63-S–med

Figure 2. . Analysis of serum samples with known neutralizing activity. Neutralization of transduction driven by the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus spike protein (MERS-S) (A), G protein of vesicular stomatitis virus (B), and S protein of human coronavirus NL63 (NL63-S) (C) were determined as described for Figure 1, except that serum with known reactivity to MERS-S and NL63-S and serum from 2 patients at King Fahd Hospital of the University in Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia, that neutralized NL63-S–mediated transduction (Figure 1, panel A) were analyzed. Transduction of target cells in the absence of serum was set at 100%.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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