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Population-based seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and the herd immunity threshold in Maranhão

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2020
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. METHODS: A population-based household survey was performed, from July 27, 2020 to August 8, 2020.
Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva, Lídio Gonçalves Lima-Neto, Conceição de Maria Pedrozo e Silva de Azevedo, Léa Márcia Melo da Costa, Maylla Luanna Barbosa Martins Bragança, Allan Kardec Duailibe Barros Filho, Bernardo Bastos Wittlin, Bruno Feres de Souza, Bruno Luciano Carneiro Alves de Oliveira, Carolina Abreu de Carvalho, Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz, Eudes Alves Simões-Neto, Jamesson Ferreira Leite Júnior, Lécia Maria Sousa Santos Cosme, Marcos Adriano Garcia Campos, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Sérgio Souza Costa, Vitória Abreu de Carvalho, Vanda Maria Ferreira Simões, Maria Teresa Seabra Soares de Brito e Alves, Alcione Miranda dos Santos   +20 more
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Seroprevalence of Hantavirus in Forestry Workers, Northern France, 2019–2020

Viruses, 2023
We aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) among forestry workers in northern France, and to explore sociodemographic risk factors.
Catarina Krug, Emma Rigaud, Dieyenaba Siby-Diakite, Laetitia Bénézet, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Henriette de Valk, Gaëtan Deffontaines, Alexandra Septfons, Jean-Marc Reynes   +8 more
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Seroepidemiological study of mumps in Mosul [PDF]

Iraqi Journal of Pharmacy, 2010
Objectives: to evaluate the prevalence of mumps specific IgG antibodies in sera of different age groups and sexes of Mosul population. Methods: 440 sera of different age groups and sexes were collected and tested by ELISA test. Results: Seropositivity against mumps virus among different age groups was 68% (males 36% and females 32%, the difference was ...
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Serologic evidence of the exposure of small mammals to spotted-fever Rickettsia and Rickettsia bellii in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2016
Introduction: Sources of pathogenic Rickettsia in wildlife are largely unknown in Brazil. In this work, potential tick vectors and seroreactivity of small mammals against four spotted-fever group Rickettsia (R. rickettsii, R. parkeri, R.
Marcella Gonçalves Coelho, Vanessa do Nascimento Ramos, Jean Ezequiel Limongi, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Alexandro Guterres, Sócrates Fraga da Costa Neto, Tatiana Rozental, Cibele Rodrigues Bonvicino, Paulo Sérgio D'Andrea, Jonas Moraes-Filho, Marcelo Bahia Labruna, Matias Pablo Juan Szabó   +11 more
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H5N1 influenza virus seroepidemiological studies: The facts revisited [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
The Perspective by Palese and Wang stated that they are providing the “facts, not fear” regarding H5N1 virus infection (1). Despite this claim, they did not provide an accurate picture of the facts as they relate to estimating the case-fatality rate for human H5N1 infection.
Michael T, Osterholm, Nicholas S, Kelley
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmosis among Shelter-Housed Felines in a Philadelphia Suburb

Animals, 2022
Members of the Felidae family are the definitive host of the ubiquitous zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Few studies have been conducted to determine the epidemiology of T. gondii in domestic felines within animal shelter populations.
Danni J. Mitchell, Chelsea L. Reinhard, Stephen D. Cole, Darko Stefanovski, Brittany Watson   +4 more
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SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Lithuania: Results of National Population Survey

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2021
Background. Betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has spread in early 2020 worldwide just in several months. The official statistics are consistently collected, but this is mainly based on symptomatic reports.
Kastytis Šmigelskas, Kęstutis Petrikonis, Vytautas Kasiulevičius, Ramunė Kalėdienė, Audronė Jakaitienė, Snieguolė Kaselienė, Skirmantė Sauliūnė, Aušra Beržanskytė, Mindaugas Stankūnas   +8 more
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Seroepidemiological and Microbiological Study of Brucellosis in Kuwait [PDF]

Medical Principles and Practice, 2004
<i>Objective:</i> The primary objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of brucellosis and the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of local <i>Brucellae</i> isolates in the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kuwait. <i>Subjects and Methods:</i> A single serum sample was collected from each of 1,836 patients ...
Ts, Dimitrov, D, Panigrahi, M, Emara, F, Awni, R, Passadilla   +4 more
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Prevalence of human T-cell lymphotropic virus in blood donor screening at the Blood Center: a descriptive study, Mato Grosso, 2018-2021 [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objectives: To describe the prevalence of human T-lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1/2) infection among blood donors at the Mato Grosso Blood Center between January 2018 and August 2021, as well as to report the demographic characteristics and ...
Pennsylvania Marinho Borralho, Eduarda Pavan, Francisco Kennedy Scofoni Faleiros de Azevedo, Cor Jesus Fernandes Fontes, Anmony Borralho de Figueiredo, Wagner Izidoro de Brito, Fernanda Rizzieri Yamanaka, Ruberlei Godinho de Oliveira   +7 more
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Preliminary Seroepidemiological Studies on the Human Syncytial Virus

Journal of General Virology, 1978
The seroepidemiology of the human syncytial virus was investigated by means of an indirect immunofluorescence test on 241 sera from Kenya, Tunisia, Singapore and Britain. These included sera from patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, other tumours of the oro-nasopharynx, tumours of other parts of the body, and from normal donors.
B G, Achong, M A, Epstein
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