Mapping of SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG in gingival crevicular fluid: Antibody dynamics and linkage to severity of COVID-19 in hospital inpatients

ISARIC4C Investigators, Samreen Ijaz*, Steve Dicks, Keerthana Jegatheesan, Eleanor Parker, Ksenia Katsanovskaja, Elen Vink, Justin Shute, Myra O. McClure, J. Shute, Joshua Hope, Nicola Cook, Peter Cherepanov, Lance Turtle, William A Paxton, Georgios Pollakis, Antonia Ho, Peter J.M. Openshaw, J Kenneth Baillie, Malcolm G. SempleRichard S. Tedder

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)152-160
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Infection
Volume85
Issue number2
Early online date3 Jun 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding:
This work is supported by grants from: the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) [award COsingle bondCIN-01], the Medical Research Council [grant MC_PC_19059] and by the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections at University of Liverpool in partnership with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), in collaboration with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Oxford [award 200907], NIHR HPRU in Respiratory Infections at Imperial College London with UKHSA [award 200927], NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Imperial College London [IS-BRC-1215-20013], and NIHR Clinical Research Network for providing infrastructure support for this research. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR, MRC or UKHSA.

Funding was also available from UKRI CV220-11: Serological detection of past SARS-CoV-2 infection by non-invasive sampling for field epidemiology and quantitative antibody detection; held at Imperial College London.

Work in PC's laboratory was supported by the Francis Crick Institute, which receives its core funding from Cancer Research UK (FC001061), the Wellcome Trust (FC001061), and the UK Medical Research Council (FC001061).

The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication

Study registration ISRCTN66726260

The ISARIC WHO CCP-UK study was registered at https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN66726260 and designated an Urgent Public Health Research Study by NIHR.

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