Duration of SARS-CoV-2 sero-positivity in a large longitudinal sero-surveillance cohort: the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership
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Herrington, David M.Sanders, John W.
Wierzba, Thomas F.
Alexander-Miller, Martha
Espeland, Mark
Bertoni, Alain G.
Mathews, Allison
Seals, Austin L.
Munawar, Iqra
Runyon, Michael S.
McCurdy, Lewis H.
Gibbs, Michael A.
Kotloff, Karen
Friedman-Klabanoff, De Anna
Weintraub, William
Correa, Adolfo
Uschner, Diane
Edelstein, Sharon
Santacatterina, Michele
Date
2021-08-30Journal
BMC Infectious DiseasesPublisher
BMJ Publishing GroupType
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Background: Estimating population prevalence and incidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is essential to formulate public health recommendations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. However, interpreting estimates based on sero-surveillance requires an understanding of the duration of elevated antibodies following SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially in the large number of people with pauci-symptomatic or asymptomatic disease. Methods: We examined > 30,000 serology assays for SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG and IgM assays acquired longitudinally in 11,468 adults between April and November 2020 in the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership. Results: Among participants with serologic evidence for infection but few or no symptoms or clinical disease, roughly 50% sero-reverted in 30 days of their initial positive test. Sero-reversion occurred more quickly for IgM than IgG and for antibodies targeting nucleocapsid protein compared with spike proteins, but was not associated with age, sex, race/ethnicity, or healthcare worker status. Conclusions: The short duration of antibody response suggests that the true population prevalence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection may be significantly higher than presumed based on earlier sero-surveillance studies. The impact of the large number of minimally symptomatic COVID-19 cases with only a brief antibody response on population immunity remains to be determined.Sponsors
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http://hdl.handle.net/10713/16744ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/s12879-021-06517-6
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