학술논문
Transplacental Chikungunya Virus Antibody Kinetics, Thailand
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 11, Pp 1770-1772 (2006)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1080-6040
1080-6059
46743138
1080-6059
46743138
Abstract
Antibodies to chikungunya virus were detected by hemagglutination-inhibition assay in 33.6% of 2,000 infants' cord sera at delivery. Follow-up of 24 seropositive infants showed that the half-life of antibody persistence was 35.5 days. Chikungunya virus infection is common in Thailand, and routine use of diagnostic assays is needed.