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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022

Sustained COVID-19 community transmission and potential super spreading events at neglected afro-ecuadorian communities assessed by massive RT-qPCR and serological testing of community dwelling population.

Alexander Paolo Vallejo-Janeta, Diana Morales-Jadan, Maria Belen Paredes-Espinosa, Barbara Coronel, Heberson Galvis, Hugo Renato Bone-Guano, Belen Amador Rodriguez, Guadalupe Gomez Abeledo, Byron Freire-Paspuel, Esteban Ortiz-Prado and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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15 authors.

Alexander Paolo Vallejo-JanetaOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Diana Morales-JadanOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Maria Belen Paredes-EspinosaOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Barbara Coronel"UDLA-COVID-19 Team", Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Heberson Galvis"UDLA-COVID-19 Team", Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Hugo Renato Bone-GuanoUniversidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Belen Amador RodriguezUniversidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Guadalupe Gomez AbeledoUniversidad Técnica Luis Vargas Torres, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Byron Freire-Paspuel"UDLA-COVID-19 Team", Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Esteban Ortiz-PradoOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Ismar Rivera-OliveroOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Aquiles Rodrigo Henriquez-TrujilloOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Tannya LozadaDecanato de Investigación y Vinculación, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Miguel Angel Garcia BereguiainOne Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Neglected ethnic minorities from underserved rural populations in Latin America are highly vulnerable to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to poor health infrastructure and limited access to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) diagnosis. Esmeraldas is a mainly rural province of the Coastal Region of Ecuador characterized by a high presence of Afro-Ecuadorian population living under poverty conditions. Objective: We herein present a retrospective analysis of the surveillance SARS-CoV-2 testing in community-dwelling population from Esmeraldas carried out by our university laboratory in collaboration with regional health authorities during the first week of October 2020, in a region where no public SARS-CoV-2 detection laboratory was available at that time. Results: A total number of 1,259 people were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by Reverse Transcription quantitative Polimerasa Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR), resulting in an overall infection rate of 7.7% (97/1259, 95% Conclusion: These results support active COVID-19 community transmission in Esmeraldas province during the first semester of the COVID-19 pandemic as it has been shown for other rural communities in the Ecuadorian Coastal Region.

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Afro-Ecuadorian populationCOVID-19EcuadorEsmeraldasRT-qPCRrural communitiesSARS-CoV-2seroprevalence

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