 Seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among health care workers in a large Spanish reference hospitalAlberto L. Garcia-Basteiro (),
Gemma Moncunill,
Marta Tortajada,
Marta Vidal,
Caterina Guinovart,
Alfons Jiménez,
Rebeca Santano,
Sergi Sanz,
Susana Méndez,
Anna Llupià,
Ruth Aguilar,
Selena Alonso,
Diana Barrios,
Carlo Carolis,
Pau Cisteró,
Eugenia Chóliz,
Angeline Cruz,
Silvia Fochs,
Chenjerai Jairoce,
Jochen Hecht,
Montserrat Lamoglia,
Mikel J. Martínez,
Robert A. Mitchell,
Natalia Ortega,
Nuria Pey,
Laura Puyol,
Marta Ribes,
Neus Rosell,
Patricia Sotomayor,
Sara Torres,
Sarah Williams,
Sonia Barroso,
Anna Vilella,
José Muñoz,
Antoni Trilla,
Pilar Varela,
Alfredo Mayor and
Carlota Dobaño
Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-9 Abstract: Abstract 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. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-17318-x Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17318-x Access Statistics for this article Nature Communications is currently edited by Nathalie Le Bot, Enda Bergin and Fiona Gillespie More articles in Nature Communications from Nature |
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