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. 2022 Jul 25;7:82. doi: 10.1038/s41541-022-00508-7

Fig. 5. Maternal antibodies protect offspring from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Fig. 5

Six-week-old offspring of naïve (red) or of immunized and subsequently infected with SARS-CoV-2-SD614G (green) K18-hACE2 mice were challenged intranasally with 3 × 104 TCID50 SARS-CoV-2-SD614G. a Determination of virus neutralization titers (ND50) in serum of offspring 1 week before and 5 days after challenge infection. b Body weight at the indicated times pi. c Determination of infectious SARS-CoV-2 titers in lung and brain tissue homogenates 5 days pi. Geometric means and geometric SD are indicated. Statistically significant differences were determined by the two-way ANOVA test (a) or by the two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test (c) (*p < 0.05; **p < 0.005, ****p < 0.0001).