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Volume 27, Number 12—December 2021
Dispatch

Evidence of Human Exposure to Tamdy Virus, Northwest China

Abulimiti Moming1, Shu Shen1, Yaohui Fang, Jingyuan Zhang, Yanfang Zhang, Shuang Tang, Tianxian Li, Zhihong Hu, Hualin Wang, Yujiang Zhang, Surong Sun, Lin-Fa Wang, and Fei DengComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China (A. Moming, S. Shen, Y. Fang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, S. Tang, T. Li, Z. Hu, H. Wang, F. Deng); College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China (A. Moming, S. Sun); National Virus Resource Center, Wuhan (S. Shen, Y. Zhang, S. Tang, F. Deng); Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China (Y. Zhang); Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore (L.F. Wang)

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Table 2

Seroprevalence of TAMV among 87 febrile patients with samples collected in 2007 from Bachu County, Xinjiang, China*

Patient characteristics Serum samples, no. TAMV IgG positive, % TAMV IgM positive, % Neutralization activity, % Neutralization titers
Sex
M 20 3 (15.0) 7 (35.0) 1 (5.0) 64
F 29 6 (20.7) 5 (17.2) 3 (10.3) 16, 32, 32
NA
 38
 12 (31.6)
 5 (13.6)
 2 (5.3)
 16, 16
Age, y†
<18 6 2 (33.3) 1 (16.7) 0
18–30 20 1 (5.0) 8 (40.0) 1 (5.0) 16
31–45 7 2 (28.6) 1 (14.3) 0
46–60 11 2 (18.2) 0 1 (9.1) 32
>60
 5
 2 (40.0)
 2 (40.0)
 2 (40.0)
 32, 64
Total 87 21 (24.1) 17 (19.5) 6 (6.9) 16–64

*NA, not available; TAMV, Tamdy virus. †Age stratification based on 49 patients with recorded age information

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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