SARS-CoV-2 Serosurvey in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Affiliations
- 1MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 2Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), Boston, Massachusetts.
- 3MyungSung Christian Medical Center (MCM) Eye Unit, MCM General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 4Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 5Berhan Public Health and Eye Care Consultancy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 6International Clinical Laboratories, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 7Ethiopian Biotechnology Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 8Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 9Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
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%).
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