{"id":2814,"date":"2020-12-17T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:49:35","slug":"covid-19-and-blood-groups-abo-antibody-levels-may-also-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/covid-19-and-blood-groups-abo-antibody-levels-may-also-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 and Blood Groups: ABO Antibody Levels May Also Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Results from an in vitro study suggest that SARS-CoV-2 that has replicated in cells expressing blood group A and B antigens could be tagged with these antigens. A subsequent observational study (n=290 COVID-19 patients, n=276 asymptomatic controls) found that ABO antibody levels, which are antibodies that correspond to blood type, were significantly lower in COVID-19 patients than in propensity-matched controls. The authors suggest that people with low ABO antibodies may be at higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deleers et al. (Dec 10, 2020). Covid-19 and Blood Groups: ABO Antibody Levels May Also Matter. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.12.025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.12.025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from an in vitro study suggest that SARS-CoV-2 that has replicated in cells expressing blood group A and B antigens could be tagged with these antigens. A subsequent observational study (n=290 COVID-19 patients, n=276 asymptomatic controls) found that ABO antibody levels, which are antibodies that correspond to blood type, were significantly lower in COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/covid-19-and-blood-groups-abo-antibody-levels-may-also-matter\/\">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":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","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=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}