📄 Lack of MERS coronavirus neutralizing antibodies in humans, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

We used a lentiviral vector bearing the viral spike protein to detect neutralizing antibodies against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in persons from the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. None of the 268 samples tested displayed neutralizing activity, which suggests that MERS-CoV infections in humans are infrequent in this province.

keywords 🔗 syndrome coronavirus (1074) 🔗 spike protein (353) 🔗 neutralizing antibodies (122) 🔗 respiratory syndrome (2004)

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