SARS-CoV-2 Serosurvey in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Autor: Kempen JH; MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.; Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), Boston, Massachusetts.; MyungSung Christian Medical Center (MCM) Eye Unit, MCM General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.; Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts., Abashawl A; Berhan Public Health and Eye Care Consultancy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Suga HK; MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Nigussie Difabachew M; International Clinical Laboratories, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Kempen CJ; MyungSung Christian Medical Center (MCM) Eye Unit, MCM General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Tesfaye Debele M; International Clinical Laboratories, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Menkir AA; MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Assefa MT; MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Asfaw EH; MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Habtegabriel LB; MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Sitotaw Addisie Y; Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Nilles EJ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.; Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), Boston, Massachusetts., Longenecker JC; Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene [Am J Trop Med Hyg] 2020 Nov; Vol. 103 (5), pp. 2022-2023.
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0816
Abstrakt: In a serosurvey of asymptomatic people from the general population recruited from a clinical laboratory in May 2020 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, three of 99 persons tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG (3.0%, 95% binomial exact confidence interval: 0.6-8.6%). Taking into account pretest probability and the sampling scheme, the range of plausible population prevalence values was approximately 1.0-8.4%. These results suggest that a larger number of people have been infected than the counts detected by surveillance to date; nevertheless, the results suggest the large majority of the general population in Addis Ababa currently is susceptible to COVID-19.
Databáze: MEDLINE