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ROME, May 11 — Antibodies against coronavirus remained in the blood of patients with Covid-19 for at least eight months after they were infected, Italian researchers said today. They were present “regardless of the severity of the illness, the age of the patients or the presence of other...

The researchers, working with Italy’s ISS national health institute, studied 162 patients with symptomatic coronavirus. — Reuters picOME, May 11 — Antibodies against coronavirus remained in the blood of patients with Covid-19 for at least eight months after they were infected, Italian researchers said today.

The researchers, working with Italy’s ISS national health institute, studied 162 patients with symptomatic coronavirus who turned up at the emergency room during the country’s first wave of infections last year. “The presence of neutralising antibodies, while reducing over time, was very persistent—eight months after diagnosis, there were only three patients who no longer showed positivity to the test,” said the statement, issued jointly with the ISS.

 

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