
Nephropathia epidemica (NE), a mild form of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), is an acute febrile illness caused by Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV). NE manifests typically with acute kidney injury (AKI), with a case fatality rate of about 0.1%. The treatment and management of hantavirus infections are mainly supportive, although neutralizing monoclonal antibodies and immune sera therapeutics are under investigation. In order to assess the potential use of antibody therapeutics in NE, we sought to determine the relationship between circulating PUUV neutralizing antibodies, PUUV nucleocapsid protein (N) IgG antibodies, and viral loads with markers of disease severity. The study included serum samples of extensively characterized patient cohorts (n = 116) from Tampere University Hospital, Finland. The results showed that upon hospitalization, most patients already had considerable neutralizing and anti-PUUV-N IgG antibody levels. However, contrary to expectations, neutralizing antibody titers from the first day of hospitalization did not appear to protect from AKI or correlate with more favorable disease outcomes. This indicates that further studies are needed to investigate the applicability of neutralizing antibodies as a therapy for hospitalized NE patients.
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Infectious Medicine, 610, 10184 Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Infektionsmedicin, INCLUSION, 3121 Internal medicine, Microbiology, Puumala virus, Severity of Illness Index, Article, 3121, GFR ESTIMATION RECOMMENDATIONS, nephropathia epidemica; AKI; pFRNT; disease severity; neutralizing antibody, AKI, Virology, 616, HANTAVIRUS INFECTION, Humans, UNIFYING APPROACH, ASN TASK-FORCE, pFRNT, INTRAVENOUS RIBAVIRIN, VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, neutralizing antibody, nephropathia epidemica, 2725 Infectious Diseases, Acute Kidney Injury, Antibodies, Neutralizing, EVOLUTION, QR1-502, NEPHROPATHIA-EPIDEMICA, Biomedicine, Infectious Diseases, HEMORRHAGIC-FEVER, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, 2406 Virology, 570 Life sciences; biology, disease severity
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