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A COVID-19 Hotspot Area: Activities and Epidemiological Findings.
Article in Microorganisms, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 seroassay sensitivity: a systematic review and modelling study.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- One health system supporting surveillance during COVID-19 epidemic in Abruzzo region, southern Italy.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Epidemiological and genomic findings of the first documented Italian outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant of concern.Epidemics · 2022Article
- COVID-19 hot-spot strategy: a special innovation in pandemic response, Oyo State Nigeria.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Epidemiological study in a small rural area of Veneto (Italian region) during Sars-Cov-2 Pandemia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
By late March 2020, Villa Caldari, a small village of the municipality of Ortona (Abruzzo region), was registering an incidence rate of COVID-19 cases ten times greater than the overall municipality and was declared a hotspot area. Twenty-two days later, epidemiological investigation and sampling were performed, to evaluate SARS-CoV-2 circulation and the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Overall, 681 nasopharyngeal swabs and 667 blood samples were collected. Only one resident of the village resulted in being positive for RNA viral shedding, while 73 were positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. The overall seroprevalence was 10.9%. The difference between the seroprevalence of infection in asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals was significant (χ
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