SARS-CoV-2 Serosurvey in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Open Access
- 4 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 103 (5), 2022-2023
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0816
Abstract
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.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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