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Re:Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging va... by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:54PM (#28788971)
> the infection causes antibodies to each of the envelope proteins.

That's interesting, I was not aware of that there was always antibodies to all envelope proteins. Do you have links to more information on the topic?

How does this work when some of the envelope proteins are common, ones that occur in other non-viral sources?

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Re:Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging va... by torstenvl on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:05PM (#28790753)
There aren't always antibodies to all envelope proteins. That's too strong of a claim. Sometimes antibodies to early stage precursors fade before antibodies to others are developed.

I'd recommend reading about the HIV virion as an example with multiple proteins and needing multiple detected antibodies for a positive diagnosis. It's a good virus to read about due to the immense amount of research put into it.

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Re:Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging va... by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday October 08, 2021 @07:52AM (#28798181)
Doesn't that contradict your statement above - "There is zero evidence of such a phenomenon" ?
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Re:Medical Ethicist at UC Irvine on leave for challenging va... by torstenvl on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:17PM (#28802342)
No...? No rational person could draw that conclusion.

Where exactly are you seeing evidence that the presence of protein A means antibodies to protein B will not be developed?

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