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Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis
. 2020 Nov 12;7(12)
faa550.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa550. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seroprevalence Among Adults in a Tropical City of the Caribbean Area, Colombia: Are We Much Closer to Herd Immunity Than Developed Countries?
Salim Mattar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Nelson Alvis-Guzman[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Evelin Garay[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ricardo Rivero[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alejandra Garc?a[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yesica Botero[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jorge Miranda[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ketty Galeano[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fernando de La Hoz[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Caty Mart?nez[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Germ?n Arrieta[SUP] 1 [/SUP], ?lvaro A Faccini-Mart?nez[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Camilo Guzm?n[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hugo Kerguelen[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Maria Moscote[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Hector Contreras[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Veronica Contreras[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
A serological survey was carried out in Monteria (500 000 population), a mid-size city in Colombia. An overall prevalence of 55.3% (95% confidence interval, 52.5%-57.8%) was found among a sample of 1.368 people randomly selected from the population. Test positivity was related to economic characteristics with the highest prevalence found in the most impoverished areas, representing 83.8% of the city's population. We found a prevalence that might be associated with some important level of population immunity.
Keywords: ELISA; coronavirus; infectious disease transmission; poverty areas; socioeconomic status.
. 2020 Nov 12;7(12)
faa550.doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa550. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seroprevalence Among Adults in a Tropical City of the Caribbean Area, Colombia: Are We Much Closer to Herd Immunity Than Developed Countries?
Salim Mattar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Nelson Alvis-Guzman[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Evelin Garay[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ricardo Rivero[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alejandra Garc?a[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yesica Botero[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jorge Miranda[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ketty Galeano[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fernando de La Hoz[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Caty Mart?nez[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Germ?n Arrieta[SUP] 1 [/SUP], ?lvaro A Faccini-Mart?nez[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Camilo Guzm?n[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hugo Kerguelen[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Maria Moscote[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Hector Contreras[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Veronica Contreras[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33354587
- PMCID: PMC7717429
- DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa550
Abstract
A serological survey was carried out in Monteria (500 000 population), a mid-size city in Colombia. An overall prevalence of 55.3% (95% confidence interval, 52.5%-57.8%) was found among a sample of 1.368 people randomly selected from the population. Test positivity was related to economic characteristics with the highest prevalence found in the most impoverished areas, representing 83.8% of the city's population. We found a prevalence that might be associated with some important level of population immunity.
Keywords: ELISA; coronavirus; infectious disease transmission; poverty areas; socioeconomic status.