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Seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among health care workers in a large Spanish reference hospital
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Health care workers (HCW) are a high-risk population to acquire SARS-CoV-2 infection from patients or other fellow HCW. This study aims at estimating the seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in a random sample of HCW from a large hospital in Spain. Of the 578 participants recruited from 28 March to 9 April 2020, 54 (9.3%, 95% CI: 7.1–12.0) were seropositive for IgM and/or IgG and/or IgA against SARS-CoV-2. The cumulative prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection (presence of antibodies or past or current positive rRT-PCR) was 11.2% (65/578, 95% CI: 8.8–14.1). Among those with evidence of past or current infection, 40.0% (26/65) had not been previously diagnosed with COVID-19. Here we report a relatively low seroprevalence of antibodies among HCW at the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain. A large proportion of HCW with past or present infection had not been previously diagnosed with COVID-19, which calls for active periodic rRT-PCR testing in hospital settings.
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- Garcia-Basteiro, A. L., Moncunill, G., Tortajada, M., Vidal, M., Guinovart, C., Jiménez, A., Santano, R., Sanz, S., Méndez, S., Llupià, A., Aguilar, R., Alonso, S., Barrios, D., Carolis, C., Cisteró, P., Chóliz, E., Cruz, A., Fochs, S., Jairoce, C., Hecht, J., Lamoglia, M., Martínez, M. J., Mitchell, R. A., Ortega, N., Pey, N., Puyol, L., Ribes, M., Rosell, N., Sotomayor, P., Torres, S., Williams, S., Barroso, S., Vilella, A., Muñoz, J., Trilla, A., Varela, P., Mayor, A., & Dobaño, C.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2020-07-08
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3500-3500
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3042194934
- Cited by
- 408
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 11.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (tdm)
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (vor)
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