{"id":1402,"date":"2020-10-07T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:30:22","slug":"antibody-reactivity-to-sars-cov-2-in-adults-from-the-vancouver-metropolitan-area-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/07\/antibody-reactivity-to-sars-cov-2-in-adults-from-the-vancouver-metropolitan-area-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibody Reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 in Adults from the Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A substantial proportion of individuals who lacked serological evidence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure showed antibody reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 antigens, possibly due to cross-reactivity of antibodies against other coronaviruses. Among 276 adults tested for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vancouver, Canada (May 17-June 19, 2020), 3 participants tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies using a commercially-approved assay. Among the 273 individuals who tested negative on the commercial assay, participants showed some antibody reactivity to SARS-COV-2 RBD (7%), N protein (49%), and spike protein (82%), potentially due to cross-reactivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Majdoubi et al. (Oct 7, 2020). Antibody Reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 in Adults from the Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada. Pre-print downloaded Oct 7 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.05.20206664\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.05.20206664<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A substantial proportion of individuals who lacked serological evidence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure showed antibody reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 antigens, possibly due to cross-reactivity of antibodies against other coronaviruses. Among 276 adults tested for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vancouver, Canada (May 17-June 19, 2020), 3 participants tested&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/07\/antibody-reactivity-to-sars-cov-2-in-adults-from-the-vancouver-metropolitan-area-canada\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1402","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\/1402","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}