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Volume 28, Number 3—March 2022
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Neutralizing Enterovirus D68 Antibodies in Children after 2014 Outbreak, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Robyn A. Livingston1, Christopher J. Harrison1Comments to Author , and Rangaraj Selvarangan1
Author affiliation: Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; University of Missouri, Kansas City

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Table 3

Neutralizing antibody titers for enterovirus D68 clades B1, B2 and D, in patients >24 months of age with and without a clinical diagnosis of asthma, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 2017

Group No. patients Neutralizing antibody, median (range)*
B1 B2 D
Asthma† 39 9.83 (5.50–10.50) 9.17 (2.50–10.50) 9.17 (3.17–10.50)
No asthma
214
9.50 (5.83–10.50)
8.83 (2.50–10.50)
8.17 (2.50–10.50)
Total 253 9.50 (5.50–10.50) 9.17 (2.50–10.50) 8.83 (2.50–10.50)

*Antibody titers were measured by using the cell viability kit ATPlite (Perkin Elmer, http://www.perkinelmer.com); the titers shown are the log2 inverse dilution of the lowest antibody concentration with luminescent activity. Includes seronegative patients. †Asthma as noted by clinician diagnosis in electronic medical record. Because no patients had an asthma diagnosis at <24 mo of age, to balance the age distributions of the nonasthma group with the asthma age group, we excluded nonasthma patients <24 mo of age from this analysis.

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1All authors contributed equally to this article.

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