Table 2. Line blot results for 4 case-patients who had bornavirus encephalitis, Germany, 2018–2020*.
| Case no. | Virus | Serum |
Cerebrospinal fluid |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFAT | VSBV-1 P | BoDV-1 P | IFAT | VSBV-1 P | BoDV-1 P | |||
| 1 | VSBV-1 | 655,360 | 62 | 54 | 20,480 | 49 | 32 | |
| 2 | BoDV-1 | 640 | 9 | 30 | 80 | 2 | 14 | |
| 3 | BoDV-1 | 2,560 | 4 | 17 | 160 | 2 | 2 | |
| 4 | BoDV-1 | 2,560 | 2 | 1 | 160 | 1 | 0 | |
*Cutoff value is 16 arbitrary units per antigen; positive results are indicated in bold. Results of antibody testing against heterologous antigens are indicated in italics. BoDV-1, Borna disease virus 1; IFAT, immunofluorescence antibody test; P, phosphoprotein; VSBV-1, variegated squirrel bornavirus 1.