Assertion: antibody | /r/AtLocation | the blood
Facets:
value: for a long time
type: TEMPORAL
value: potentially,
type: DEGREE
value: freely
type: MANNER
value: for months
type: TEMPORAL
value: after exposure to the virus
type: TEMPORAL
value: for weeks
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In contrast to the first test, antibodies can be present in the blood for weeks, months or, potentially, even years after exposure to the virus.
text: Other researchers believed that antibodies existed freely in the blood and, in 1904, Almroth Wright suggested that soluble antibodies coated bacteria to label them for phagocytosis and killing; a process that he named opsoninization.
text: While the currently used molecular test has low sensitivity and cannot identify people who have recovered from COVID-19 illness as they will no longer harbour the virus, antibodies produced by the immune system in response to infection will be present in the blood for a long time.