A clinically ill family member, despite having no contact with the CNPRC, also tested positive, and screening of a set of 81 random adult blood donors from the Western United States detected TMAdV - specific neutralizing antibodies in 2 individuals (2/81, or 2.5 %).
A clinically ill family member with no prior contact with the CNPRC also tested positive.
Not exact matches
Serum samples were also collected from the two
family members of the
clinically ill CNPRC researcher 1 year after the outbreak.
Only two samples were found positive for neutralizing Abs to TMAdV: (1) Ab titers for the
clinically ill researcher were 1 ∶ 32, and (2) Ab titers for one of the
family members of the
clinically ill researcher were 1 ∶ 8.
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clinically ill researcher; **,
family member of the researcher, who was also sick.