Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2020)

Antibody Profiles According to Mild or Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2020

  • William T. Hu,
  • J. Christina Howell,
  • Tugba Ozturk,
  • Karima Benameur,
  • Leda C. Bassit,
  • Richard Ramonell,
  • Kevin S. Cashman,
  • Shama Pirmohammed,
  • John D. Roback,
  • Vincent C. Marconi,
  • Irene Yang,
  • Valerie V. Mac,
  • Daniel Smith,
  • Ignacio Sanz,
  • Whitney Wharton,
  • F. Eun-Hyung Lee,
  • Raymond F. Schinazi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2612.203334
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 12
pp. 2974 – 2978

Abstract

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Among patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), IgM levels increased early after symptom onset for those with mild and severe disease, but IgG levels increased early only in those with severe disease. A similar pattern was observed in a separate serosurveillance cohort. Mild COVID-19 should be investigated separately from severe COVID-19.

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