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. 2013 Jul 17;8(7):e70060. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070060

Table 3. Changes in anti-IAV-specific IgG production in untreated patients and patients treated with OSV and ZNV for 5 days, with or without CAM.

Treatment n IgG concentration Percentage of patients with ≥1-fold and ≥4-fold increases in anti-IAV-specific IgG concentration during treatment
Anti-IAV-specific IgG (U/mL) Total IgG (mg/mL)
H1N1 H3N2 H1N1 H3N2
Before After Before After Before After ≥1-fold (After/before) ≥4-fold (After/before) ≥1-fold (After/before) ≥4-fold (After/before)
No treatment 49 0.5 (0.2–0.9) 0.8 (0.4–1.5) 0.4 (0.2–0.7) 0.8 (0.3–1.4) 19.3 (10.9–48.3) 17.7 (10.2–28.1)* 73.5 30.6 73.5 34.7
OSV 52 0.2 (0.03–0.7) 0.5 (0.06–1.0) 0.2 (0.04–0.5) 0.4 (0.06–1.1) 13.2 (9.1–17.6) 11.8 (8.6–17.4) 63.5 21.2 75.0 32.7
OSV+CAM 14 0.5 (0.3–0.6) 0.9 (0.5–1.4) 0.5 (0.2–0.5) 0.6 (0.4–1.2)* 14.1 (10.1–21.1) 12.0 (9.6–16.7) 78.6 21.4 85.7 14.3
ZNV 22 0.6 (0.3–1.1) 0.6 (0.4–1.1) 0.3 (0.2–0.5) 0.5 (0.4–0.9) 11.9 (8.3–31.4) 15.3 (9.4–28.4) 40.9 13.6 68.2 18.2
ZNV+CAM 8 0.3 (0.2–0.6) 0.9 (0.2–1.8)* 0.4 (0.2–0.7) 1.4 (0.4–2.6)* 15.4 (10.2–22.0) 12.0 (8.9–14.9) 100.0 25.0 100.0# 50.0

Data are median (interquartile range). Before and after denote before and after treatment, respectively.

*P<0.05,

P<0.01, versus before treatment for the same parameter (Wilcoxon signed-ranks test).

P<0.01, versus the respective no treatment (Fisher's exact test).

#

P<0.06 to <0.09, versus the ZNV group (Fisher's exact test).

P<0.01, versus the ZNV group (Fisher's exact test).