{"id":10239,"date":"2021-06-07T10:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10239"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:55:21","slug":"marked-increase-in-avidity-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-antibodies-7-8-months-after-infection-is-not-diminished-in-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/marked-increase-in-avidity-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-antibodies-7-8-months-after-infection-is-not-diminished-in-old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Marked Increase in Avidity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Antibodies 7-8 Months after Infection Is Not Diminished in Old Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study assessing the avidity, or binding strength, of IgG among 217 participants in Austria soon after SARS-CoV-2 infection and 7-8 months later found that avidity increased from 18% to 42% and did not diminish among older participants. High avidity was associated with a residual neutralization capacity in 97% of participants (211\/217). The authors suggest that robust immunity may persist for 7-8 months after infection and is not impaired in older individuals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pichler et al.\u00a0(June 2021). Marked Increase in Avidity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Antibodies 7-8 Months after Infection Is Not Diminished in Old Age. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiab300\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiab300<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study assessing the avidity, or binding strength, of IgG among 217 participants in Austria soon after SARS-CoV-2 infection and 7-8 months later found that avidity increased from 18% to 42% and did not diminish among older participants. High avidity was associated with a residual neutralization capacity in 97% of participants (211\/217). The authors suggest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/marked-increase-in-avidity-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-antibodies-7-8-months-after-infection-is-not-diminished-in-old-age\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,32],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-10239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antibodies","tag-immunity","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10240,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions\/10240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}