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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia

The negative effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have impacted the world economy due to the absence from work because of SARS-CoV-2 infection in workers, among other reasons. However, some economic areas are essential to society and people must continue working outside the home t...

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Autores principales: Colmenares-Mejía, Claudia C., Serrano-Díaz, Norma, Quintero-Lesmes, Doris C., Meneses, Ligia, Salazar Acosta, Isail, Idrovo, Álvaro J., Sanabria-Echeverry, Duván Y., Cordero-Rebolledo, Helmer, Castillo, Víctor
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8071134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920843
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084172
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author Colmenares-Mejía, Claudia C.
Serrano-Díaz, Norma
Quintero-Lesmes, Doris C.
Meneses, Ligia
Salazar Acosta, Isail
Idrovo, Álvaro J.
Sanabria-Echeverry, Duván Y.
Cordero-Rebolledo, Helmer
Castillo, Víctor
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Serrano-Díaz, Norma
Quintero-Lesmes, Doris C.
Meneses, Ligia
Salazar Acosta, Isail
Idrovo, Álvaro J.
Sanabria-Echeverry, Duván Y.
Cordero-Rebolledo, Helmer
Castillo, Víctor
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description The negative effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have impacted the world economy due to the absence from work because of SARS-CoV-2 infection in workers, among other reasons. However, some economic areas are essential to society and people must continue working outside the home to support economic reactivation; their serological profile could be different from that of the global population. Cross-sectional study: Workers from health, construction, public transportation, public force, bike delivery messengers, independent or informal commerce areas, and residents of Bucaramanga or its metropolitan area were invited to participate. All participants self-completed a virtual survey and a blood test was taken to assess IgG and IgM with the ARC COV2 test. Seroprevalence was estimated considering a complex survey design, correcting for a finite population effect and adjusting for test performance. A total of 7045 workers were enrolled; 59.9% were women and most were residents of Bucaramanga and working in health occupations. The global adjusted seroprevalence was 19.5% (CI: 95% 18.6–20.4), being higher for Girón (27.9%; 95% CI: 24.5–31.30). Workers with multiple contact with people during working hours or using public transportation to go to work had a higher frequency of seropositivity for SARS-CoV-2. The seroprevalence among workers living in these four municipalities from the Colombian northeast area is still low.
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spelling pubmed-80711342021-04-26 Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia Colmenares-Mejía, Claudia C. Serrano-Díaz, Norma Quintero-Lesmes, Doris C. Meneses, Ligia Salazar Acosta, Isail Idrovo, Álvaro J. Sanabria-Echeverry, Duván Y. Cordero-Rebolledo, Helmer Castillo, Víctor Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The negative effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have impacted the world economy due to the absence from work because of SARS-CoV-2 infection in workers, among other reasons. However, some economic areas are essential to society and people must continue working outside the home to support economic reactivation; their serological profile could be different from that of the global population. Cross-sectional study: Workers from health, construction, public transportation, public force, bike delivery messengers, independent or informal commerce areas, and residents of Bucaramanga or its metropolitan area were invited to participate. All participants self-completed a virtual survey and a blood test was taken to assess IgG and IgM with the ARC COV2 test. Seroprevalence was estimated considering a complex survey design, correcting for a finite population effect and adjusting for test performance. A total of 7045 workers were enrolled; 59.9% were women and most were residents of Bucaramanga and working in health occupations. The global adjusted seroprevalence was 19.5% (CI: 95% 18.6–20.4), being higher for Girón (27.9%; 95% CI: 24.5–31.30). Workers with multiple contact with people during working hours or using public transportation to go to work had a higher frequency of seropositivity for SARS-CoV-2. The seroprevalence among workers living in these four municipalities from the Colombian northeast area is still low. MDPI 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8071134/ /pubmed/33920843 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084172 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Quintero-Lesmes, Doris C.
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Idrovo, Álvaro J.
Sanabria-Echeverry, Duván Y.
Cordero-Rebolledo, Helmer
Castillo, Víctor
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia
title Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia
title_full Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia
title_fullStr Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia
title_short Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Occupational Groups from the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, Colombia
title_sort seroprevalence of sars-cov-2 infection among occupational groups from the bucaramanga metropolitan area, colombia
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8071134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33920843
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084172
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