Under-diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infections among children aged 0–15 years, a nationwide seroprevalence study, Israel, January 2020 to March 2021-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Under-diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infections among children aged 0–15 years, a nationwide seroprevalence study, Israel, January 2020 to March 2021

Published:2021-12-02 Issue:48 Volume:26 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
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Author:

Indenbaum Victoria¹^ORCID,Lustig Yaniv²¹,Mendelson Ella²¹,Hershkovitz Yael³,Glatman-Freedman Aharona³²,Keinan-Boker Lital⁴³,Bassal Ravit³²

Affiliation:

1. Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Ramat-Gan, Israel

2. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

3. Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel

4. School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Abstract

Until recently, children and adolescents were not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination. They may have been a considerable source of SARS-CoV-2 spread. We evaluated SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody seroprevalence in Israeli children aged 0–15 years from January 2020 to March 2021. Seropositivity was 1.8–5.5 times higher than COVID-19 incidence rates based on PCR testing. We found that SARS-CoV-2 infection among children is more prevalent than previously thought and emphasise the importance of seroprevalence studies to accurately estimate exposure.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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