TY - JOUR AU - Liu, Weimin AU - Russell, Ronnie AU - Bibollet-Ruche, Frederic AU - Skelly, Ashwin AU - Sherrill-Mix, Scott AU - Freeman, Drew AU - Stoltz, Regina AU - Lindemuth, Emily AU - Lee, Fang-Hua AU - Sterrett, Sarah AU - Bar, Katharine AU - Erdmann, Nathaniel AU - Gouma, Sigrid AU - Hensley, Scott AU - Ketas, Thomas AU - Cupo, Albert AU - Cruz Portillo, Victor AU - Moore, John AU - Bieniasz, Paul AU - Hatziioannou, Theodora AU - Massey, Greer AU - Minyard, Mary-Beth AU - Saag, Michael AU - Davis, Randall AU - Shaw, George AU - Britt, William AU - Leal, Sixto AU - Goepfert, Paul AU - Hahn, Beatrice T1 - Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 9 SP - 2454 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Not all persons recovering from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection develop SARS-CoV-2–specific antibodies. We show that nonseroconversion is associated with younger age and higher reverse transcription PCR cycle threshold values and identify SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in the nasopharynx as a major correlate of the systemic antibody response. KW - COVID-19 KW - coronavirus disease KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - zoonoses KW - nonseroconversion KW - RT-PCR KW - cycle threshold KW - nasopharyngeal viral loads KW - humoral response KW - serological nonresponders DO - 10.3201/eid2709.211042 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article ER - End of Reference