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Volume 26, Number 10—October 2020

Research Letter

Disappearance of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Infants Born to Women with COVID-19, Wuhan, China

Jinzhi Gao1, Wei Li1, Xiaolin Hu, Ying Wei, Jianli Wu, Xiaoping Luo, Suhua ChenComments to Author , and Ling ChenComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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Table

Sequential severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2–specific antibodies assay in 24 infants born to mothers with PCR-confirmed coronavirus disease, Wuhan, China, January 19–April 12, 2020*

Case no.
 GA, wk+d
At symptom onset At birth
IgM/IgG titers, AU/mL, by age of infant
0 d 7 d 14 d 28 d 45 d 60 d 75 d
1
 Mother 7.5/116.9* 33+4
 36+3
Infant
0.8/0.3
2
 Mother 4.4/118.3 38+5
 38+5
Infant
0.5/2.5
3
 Mother 5.0/83.3 37+5
 38+2
Infant
0.4/0.2
4
 Mother 14.5/100.8 39+1
 39+5
Infant
0.3/0.3
5
 Mother 34
 35+2
Infant
0.7/2.8
 0.4/3.5
 0.3/0.9
6
 Mother 7.0/93.0 39+3
 40
Infant
0.4/0.3
7
 Mother 51.1/94.6 39+4
 41+2
Infant
0.3/0.9
8
 Mother 67.0/92.6 37+4
 38+4
Infant
0.3/0.1
9
 Mother 17.8/104.3 38+2
 39+5
Infant
0.4/8.2
10
 Mother 15.3/95.4 9.9/108.7 38+1
 39+5
Infant
2.2/32.7
0.7/19.5
11
 Mother 11.3/112.5 5.3/105.6 35+5
 38+2
Infant
3.6/166.0
 5.3/120.8
 1.0/36.2
0.4/16.2
12
 Mother +/+† 37.9/94.6 29+4
 31
Infant
5.7/142.0
 2.6/113.9
 1.8/75.3
 0.3/22.0
0.4/11.3
13
 Mother +/+ 34+3
 38
Infant
 3.5/134.1
 2.4/125.0
 2.8/119.0
 0.7/24.6
14
 Mother 7.0/61.1 1.9/59.5 34+6
 39
Infant
 2.2/78.4
 1.5/76.9
 3.0/80.9
 0.8/28.6
0.5/13.0
15
 Mother 0.7/58.9 NA
 37+2
Infant
 8.5/174.5
7.8/122.7
16
 Mother +/+ NA
 38+3
Infant
 0.7/101.0
17
 Mother +/+ 1.5/104.2 NA
 38+3
Infant
 1.2/110.4
 10.4/108.9
2.1/68.2
18
 Mother –/+ 4.8/54.5 NA
 39+5
Infant
 6.6/96.2
 11.3/86.0
 11.9/88.3
 2.5/60.9
19
 Mother 2,581.6/281 40.2/89.8 13.9/99.6 6.9/94.2 32+1
 38
Infant
 184.3/147.2
 42.6/161.6
 21.2/83.8
 5.5/79.2
 1.6/57.0
0.3/25.9
20
 Mother 6.9/82.8 6.0/81.3 31+1
 39+5
Infant
25.7/68.8
3.0/58.4
 0.4/47.4
21
 Mother +/+ 5.1/139.0 30+3
 38
Infant
 26.0/145.8
 41.8/120.1
 42.9/110.1
 38.0/89.5
14.2/105.3
22
 Mother +/+ 30
 30
Infant
 22.8/116.5
 11.8/104.4
 8.7/99.8
 1.9/75.2
23
 Mother +/+ 10.5/101.6 4.3/115.6 32+1
 32+1
Infant
 15.8/222.1
 33.8/182.5
 9.0/88.2
 6.1/82.5
0.5/31.1
24 Mother +/+ –/+ 8.0/83.9 NA NA
Infant 30.1/106.0 29.5/84.6 31.5/94.9 9.7/73.1

*Bold text indicates titer >10 AU/mL (i.e., above cutoff). GA, gestational age; NA, not available; –, negative; +, positive.
†Some mothers delivered in other hospitals, and antibody testing was conducted using other qualitative antibody-detection kits.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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