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Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020
Research

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2−Specific Antibody Responses in Coronavirus Disease Patients

Nisreen M.A. Okba1, Marcel A. Müller1, Wentao Li1, Chunyan Wang, Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Victor M. Corman, Mart M. Lamers, Reina S. Sikkema, Erwin de Bruin, Felicity D. Chandler, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Quentin Le Hingrat, Diane Descamps, Nadhira Houhou-Fidouh, Chantal B.E.M. Reusken, Berend-Jan Bosch, Christian Drosten, Marion P.G. Koopmans, and Bart L. HaagmansComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (N.M.A. Okba, C.H. GeurtsvanKessel, M.M. Lamers, R.S. Sikkema, E. deBruin, F.D. Chandler, C.B.E.M. Reusken, M.P.G. Koopmans, B.L. Haagmans); Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (M.A. Müller, V.M. Corman, C. Drosten); German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin (M.A. Müller, V.M. Corman, C. Drosten); Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (W. Li, C. Wang, B.-J. Bosch); Université de Paris, Paris, France (Y. Yazdanpanah, Q. Le Hingrat, D. Descamps); Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris (Y. Yazdanpanah, Q. Le Hingrat, D. Descamps, N. Houhou-Fidouh); RIVM, Bilthoven, the Netherlands (C.B.E.M. Reusken)

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Table 4

Correlations between ODs/OD ratios and PRNT results of 31 serum samples from 9 PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients tested from Germany and tested in in Berlin, Germany, 3–23 d after disease onset*

Test, virus Correlation Euroimmun ELISAs
IgA IgG
PRNT50, SARS-CoV-2
 Spearman ρ value 0.63 0.5077
2-tailed p value 0.056 0.1368
p value summary
 NS
 NS
PRNT90, SARS-CoV-2 Spearman ρ value 0.7922 0.8525
2-tailed p value 0.0004 <0.0001
p value summary <0.001 <0.0001

*COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; NS, not significant; OD, optical density; PRNT50, 50% plaque reduction neutralization test; PRNT90, 90% plaque reduction neutralization test; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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