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. 2020 Aug;25(31):2001369.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.31.2001369.

Repeated leftover serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, Greece, March and April 2020

Zacharoula Bogogiannidou  1 , Alexandros Vontas  1 , Katerina Dadouli  1 , Maria A Kyritsi  1 , Soteris Soteriades  1 , Dimitrios J Nikoulis  1 , Varvara Α Mouchtouri  1 , Michalis Koureas  1 , Evangelos I Kazakos  2 , Emmanouil G Spanos  1 , Georgia Gioula  3 , Evangelia E Ntzani  4   5   6 , Alexandros A Eleftheriou  4 , Alkiviadis Vatopoulos  7 , Efthimia Petinaki  8 , Vassiliki Papaevangelou  9 , Matthaios Speletas  10 , Sotirios Tsiodras  11 , Christos Hadjichristodoulou  1
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Repeated leftover serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, Greece, March and April 2020

Zacharoula Bogogiannidou et al. Euro Surveill. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

A serosurvey of IgG antibodies against severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was performed during March and April 2020. Among 6,586 leftover sera, 24 (0.36%) were positive, with higher prevalence in females, older individuals and residents of large urban areas. Seroprevalence was estimated at 0.02% and 0.25%, respectively, in March and April, infection fatality rate at 2.66% and 0.54%. Our findings confirm low COVID-19 incidence in Greece and possibly the effectiveness of early measures.

Keywords: COVID-19; Greece; SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies; serosurvey.

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Geographical distribution of leftover samples collected for COVID-19 serosurvey, Greece, March–April 2020 (n = 6,586)
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