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Volume 22, Number 9—September 2016
Research

Feasibility of Using Convalescent Plasma Immunotherapy for MERS-CoV Infection, Saudi Arabia

Yaseen M. ArabiComments to Author , Ali H. Hajeer, Thomas Luke, Kanakatte Raviprakash, Hanan Balkhy, Sameera Johani, Abdulaziz Al-Dawood, Saad Al-Qahtani, Awad Al-Omari, Fahad Al-Hameed, Frederick G. Hayden1, Robert Fowler, Abderrezak Bouchama, Nahoko Shindo, Khalid Al-Khairy, Gail Carson, Yusri Taha, Musharaf Sadat, and Mashail Alahmadi
Author affiliations: King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Y.M. Arabi, A.H. Hajeer , H. Balkhy, S. Johani, A. Al-Dawood, S. Al-Qahtani, A. Bouchama, K. Al-Khairy, M. Sadat, M. Alahmadi); Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (T. Luke, K. Raviprakash); Alfaisal University, Riyadh (A. Al-Omari); King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (F. Al-Hameed); University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (F.G. Hayden); University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (R. Fowler); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (N. Shindo); University of Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford, UK (G. Carson); King Abdulaziz Medical City, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia (Y. Taha)

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Figure 3

Correlation between ELISA optical density and antibody assay results in a study determining the feasibility of using convalescent plasma immunotherapy for Middle East respiratory coronavirus infection, Saudi Arabia. A) Correlation between ELISA and microneutralization assay results (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.70, p = 0.001). B) Correlation between ELISA and indirect immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) assay results (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.55, p = 0.015). C) Correlation between IFA

Figure 3. Correlation between ELISA optical density and antibody assay results in a study determining the feasibility of using convalescent plasma immunotherapy for Middle East respiratory coronavirus infection, Saudi Arabia. A) Correlation between ELISA and microneutralization assay results (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.70, p = 0.001). B) Correlation between ELISA and indirect immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) assay results (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.55, p = 0.015). C) Correlation between IFA and microneutralization assay results. (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.38, p = 0.12).

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1This author is a member of ISARIC (the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium).

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