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Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report
Due to early implementation of public health measures, Greece had low number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 severe incidents in hospitalized patients. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ΝΚUA), especially its health-care/medical personnel, has been actively involved in the fir...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7555935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10090214 |
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author | Tsitsilonis, Ourania E. Paraskevis, Dimitrios Lianidou, Evi Pierros, Vassilios Akalestos, Athanasios Kastritis, Efstathios Moutsatsou, Paraskevi Scorilas, Andreas Sphicopoulos, Thomas Terpos, Evangelos Thomaidis, Nikolaos Tsakris, Athanassios Voulgaris, Nikolaos Daskalaki, Christina C. Evangelakou, Zoi Fouki, Christina Gianniou, Despoina D. Gumeni, Sentiljana Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia Kostopoulos, Ioannis V. Manola, Maria S. Orologas-Stavrou, Nikolaos Panteli, Chrysanthi Papanagnou, Eleni-Dimitra Rousakis, Pantelis Sklirou, Aimilia D. Smilkou, Stavroula Stergiopoulou, Dimitra Trougakos, Ioannis P. Tsiodras, Soritios Sfikakis, Petros P. Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios |
author_facet | Tsitsilonis, Ourania E. Paraskevis, Dimitrios Lianidou, Evi Pierros, Vassilios Akalestos, Athanasios Kastritis, Efstathios Moutsatsou, Paraskevi Scorilas, Andreas Sphicopoulos, Thomas Terpos, Evangelos Thomaidis, Nikolaos Tsakris, Athanassios Voulgaris, Nikolaos Daskalaki, Christina C. Evangelakou, Zoi Fouki, Christina Gianniou, Despoina D. Gumeni, Sentiljana Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia Kostopoulos, Ioannis V. Manola, Maria S. Orologas-Stavrou, Nikolaos Panteli, Chrysanthi Papanagnou, Eleni-Dimitra Rousakis, Pantelis Sklirou, Aimilia D. Smilkou, Stavroula Stergiopoulou, Dimitra Trougakos, Ioannis P. Tsiodras, Soritios Sfikakis, Petros P. Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios |
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description | Due to early implementation of public health measures, Greece had low number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 severe incidents in hospitalized patients. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ΝΚUA), especially its health-care/medical personnel, has been actively involved in the first line of state responses to COVID-19. To estimate the prevalence of antibodies (Igs) against SARS-CoV-2 among NKUA members, we designed a five consecutive monthly serosurvey among randomly selected NKUA consenting volunteers. Here, we present the results from the first 2500 plasma samples collected during June–July 2020. Twenty-five donors were tested positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 Igs; thus, the overall seroprevalence was 1.00%. The weighted overall seroprevalence was 0.93% (95% CI: 0.27, 2.09) and varied between males [1.05% (95% CI: 0.18, 2.92)] and females [0.84% (95% CI: 0.13, 2.49)], age-groups and different categories (higher in participants from the School of Health Sciences and in scientific affiliates/faculty members/laboratory assistants), but no statistical differences were detected. Although focused on the specific population of NKUA members, our study shows that the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 Igs for the period June–July 2020 remained low and provides knowledge of public health importance for the NKUA members. Given that approximately one in three infections was asymptomatic, continuous monitoring of the progression of the pandemic by assessing Ig seroprevalence is needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-75559352020-10-19 Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report Tsitsilonis, Ourania E. Paraskevis, Dimitrios Lianidou, Evi Pierros, Vassilios Akalestos, Athanasios Kastritis, Efstathios Moutsatsou, Paraskevi Scorilas, Andreas Sphicopoulos, Thomas Terpos, Evangelos Thomaidis, Nikolaos Tsakris, Athanassios Voulgaris, Nikolaos Daskalaki, Christina C. Evangelakou, Zoi Fouki, Christina Gianniou, Despoina D. Gumeni, Sentiljana Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia Kostopoulos, Ioannis V. Manola, Maria S. Orologas-Stavrou, Nikolaos Panteli, Chrysanthi Papanagnou, Eleni-Dimitra Rousakis, Pantelis Sklirou, Aimilia D. Smilkou, Stavroula Stergiopoulou, Dimitra Trougakos, Ioannis P. Tsiodras, Soritios Sfikakis, Petros P. Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Life (Basel) Communication Due to early implementation of public health measures, Greece had low number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 severe incidents in hospitalized patients. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ΝΚUA), especially its health-care/medical personnel, has been actively involved in the first line of state responses to COVID-19. To estimate the prevalence of antibodies (Igs) against SARS-CoV-2 among NKUA members, we designed a five consecutive monthly serosurvey among randomly selected NKUA consenting volunteers. Here, we present the results from the first 2500 plasma samples collected during June–July 2020. Twenty-five donors were tested positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 Igs; thus, the overall seroprevalence was 1.00%. The weighted overall seroprevalence was 0.93% (95% CI: 0.27, 2.09) and varied between males [1.05% (95% CI: 0.18, 2.92)] and females [0.84% (95% CI: 0.13, 2.49)], age-groups and different categories (higher in participants from the School of Health Sciences and in scientific affiliates/faculty members/laboratory assistants), but no statistical differences were detected. Although focused on the specific population of NKUA members, our study shows that the prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 Igs for the period June–July 2020 remained low and provides knowledge of public health importance for the NKUA members. Given that approximately one in three infections was asymptomatic, continuous monitoring of the progression of the pandemic by assessing Ig seroprevalence is needed. MDPI 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7555935/ /pubmed/32967110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10090214 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Tsitsilonis, Ourania E. Paraskevis, Dimitrios Lianidou, Evi Pierros, Vassilios Akalestos, Athanasios Kastritis, Efstathios Moutsatsou, Paraskevi Scorilas, Andreas Sphicopoulos, Thomas Terpos, Evangelos Thomaidis, Nikolaos Tsakris, Athanassios Voulgaris, Nikolaos Daskalaki, Christina C. Evangelakou, Zoi Fouki, Christina Gianniou, Despoina D. Gumeni, Sentiljana Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia Kostopoulos, Ioannis V. Manola, Maria S. Orologas-Stavrou, Nikolaos Panteli, Chrysanthi Papanagnou, Eleni-Dimitra Rousakis, Pantelis Sklirou, Aimilia D. Smilkou, Stavroula Stergiopoulou, Dimitra Trougakos, Ioannis P. Tsiodras, Soritios Sfikakis, Petros P. Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report |
title | Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report |
title_full | Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report |
title_fullStr | Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report |
title_short | Seroprevalence of Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among the Personnel and Students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece: A Preliminary Report |
title_sort | seroprevalence of antibodies against sars-cov-2 among the personnel and students of the national and kapodistrian university of athens, greece: a preliminary report |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7555935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967110 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life10090214 |
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