Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Research
Neutralizing Antibody Response and SARS Severity
Table 2
ELISA† | Neutralizing antibody‡ |
|
---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | |
Positive | 207 | 1 |
Negative | 10 | 206 |
Total | 217 | 207 |
*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
†Reagents were supplied by Thomas Ksiazek, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA (2 reagents).
‡Using ELISA as the reference assay, the sensitivity of the neutralizing antibody (NT) test = 99.5%, the specificity of neutralizing antibody = 95.4%.
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