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Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016
Dispatch

Neutralizing Antibodies to Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus 4 Years after Hospitalization, China

Yu-ting Huang, Li Zhao, Hong-Ling Wen, Yi Yang, Hao Yu, and Xue-Jie YuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Shandong University, Jinan, China (Y.-T. Huang, L. Zhao, H.-L. Wen, Y. Yang, X.-J. Yu); Fudan University, Shanghai, China (H. Yu); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (X.-J. Yu)

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Table

Neutralizing antibody titers for convalescent-phase serum samples from 25 patients with SFTS, Yiyuan County, Shandong, China, 2011–2014*

Patient no.
 Titer by PRNT50
First year
 Second year
 Third year
 Fourth year
1 640 NT 320 80
2 80 NT 40 80
3 NT NT 40 40
4 20 NT 40 40
5 20 NT 40 40
6 80 NT 80 20
7 40 NT 80 40
8 5 NT 20 40
9 40 NT 40 20
10 160 NT 80 80
11 160 NT 20 80
12 160 NT 40 40
13 40 NT 20 NT
14 NT NT 320 NT
15 160 NT 160 80
16 320 NT 40 40
17 160 NT 40 40
18 NT NT 80 40
19 640 NT 160 160
20 320 80 80 NT
21 640 320 80 NT
22 20 20 20 NT
23 320 80 NT NT
24 NT 80 40 NT
25 640 80 160 NT

*Convalescent-phase serum samples were obtained during the first, second, third, and fourth years after discharge of the patients from the hospital. NT, no test performed because serum was not available; PRNT50, plaque reduction neutralization test indicating the serum titer that reduced 50% of plaque-forming units of SFTS virus; SFTS, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

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