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. 2021 Dec 23;75:103788. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103788

Table 1.

Time trends for IgG and IgA antibodies in both serum and saliva, overall sample and by previous SARS-CoV-2 exposure.

Variable, time All subjects (n=60)
No previous SARS-CoV-2 (SN; n=50)
Previous SARS-CoV-2 (SP; n=10)
p-value2 p-value3
Mean1 Δ (IC 95%) Mean1 Δ (IC 95%) Mean1 Δ (IC 95%)
Serum
Serum IgG (ng/ml)a
T0 0.04 - 0.01 - 3.7 - 0.005 0.45
T1 432.1 432.1 (219.3; 644.8) 255.6 255.6 (112.0; 399.2) 5962.2 5958.5 (-956.4; 12873.4) 0.11
T2 20373.65 20373.6 (11486.0; 29261.2) 17341.4 17341.4 (10262.7; 24420.1) 45603.0 45599.3 (14787.7; 76410.8) 0.08
Serum IgA (ng/ml)a
T0 0.02 - 0.01 - 0.1 - <0.0001 0.24
T1 1.71 1.7 (0.01; 3.4) 1.10 1.1 (-0.1; 2.3) 16.1 16 (-22.2; 54.1) 0.44
T2 49.59 49.6 (21.1; 78.0) 61.6 61.6 (29.5; 93.7) 16.7 16.6 (-21.6; 54.9) 0.08
Saliva
Salivary IgG (ng/ml)a
T0 0.02 - 0.02 - 0.03 - 0.04 <0.0001
T1 0.07 0.1 (0; 0.1) 0.04 0.02 (-0.01; 0.06) 1.08 1.1 (-1.2; 3.3) 0.36
T2 10.8 10.8 (6.8; 14.8) 9.8 9.7 (4.1; 15.4) 18.1 18.1 (-7.2; 43.3) 0.53
Salivary IgA, (ng/ml)a
T0 0.02 - 0.02 - 0.02 - 0.22 0.06
T1 0.05 0.02 (0.01; 0.05) 0.04 0.02 (-0.01; 0.05) 0.06 0.04 (-0.02; 0.11) 0.59
T2 0.07 0.05 (0.02; 0.08) 0.06 0.04 (0.01; 0.07) 0.16 0.14 (-0.05; 0.32) 0.29

a: Change in geometric mean concentration, modelled through a log-linear regression model for repeated measures, with unstructured variance-covariance matrix and adjusting for baseline.

1: Geometric mean concentration

2: p-value testing homogeneity of trends between subjects with and without previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

3: p-value testing homogeneity of geometric mean values in IgG and IgA between subjects with and without previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, at each time.