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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Associated Factors in Healthcare Workers before the Era of Vaccination at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Turkey.

Meliha Cagla Sonmezer, Enes Erul, Taha Koray Sahin, Ipek Rudvan Al, Yasemin Cosgun, Gulay Korukluoglu, Humeyra Zengin, Gülçin Telli Dizman, Ahmet Cagkan Inkaya, Serhat Unal

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Article in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Meliha Cagla SonmezerInfectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Enes ErulInternal Medicine Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-2487-2087
Taha Koray SahinInternal Medicine Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Ipek Rudvan AlInfectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Yasemin CosgunNational Arboviruses and Viral Zoonotic Diseases Laboratory, Microbiology Reference Laboratories Department, Public Health General Directorate of Turkey, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Gulay KorukluogluNational Arboviruses and Viral Zoonotic Diseases Laboratory, Microbiology Reference Laboratories Department, Public Health General Directorate of Turkey, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Humeyra ZenginInfectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0003-0096-5227
Gülçin Telli DizmanInfectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Ahmet Cagkan InkayaInfectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0001-7943-8715
Serhat UnalInfectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Hacettepe University · TR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthcare workers (HCWs), as frontliners, are assumed to be among the highest risk groups for COVID-19 infection, especially HCWs directly involved in patient care. However, the data on the COVID-19 infection and seroprevalence rates are limited in HCWs. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence rates in HCWs according to risk groups for COVID-19 contraction in a large cross-sectional study from a tertiary care hospital in Turkey. We enrolled 1974 HCWs before the vaccination programs. In two separate semi-quantitative ELISAs, either IgA or IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein subunit 1 (S1) were measured. The proportion of positive test results for IgG, IgA, or both against SARS-CoV-2 of study subjects was 19% (375/1974). Frontline HCWs who had contact with patients (21.7%, RR 2.1 [1.51-2.92]) and HCWs in working in the COVID-19 units, intensive care units, or emergency department (19.7%, RR 1.61 [1.12-2.32]) had a notably higher Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG compared to the rest of HCWs who has no daily patient contacts ([11.1%];

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before vaccinationCOVID-19healthcare workersSARS-Co-V 2 antibodyseroprevalence

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PMID35214715
PMCPMC8875971
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