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Volume 28, Number 5—May 2022

Dispatch

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Prevalence and Population-Based Death Rates, Greater Omdurman, Sudan

Wendelin Moser, Mohammed Ahmed Hassan Fahal1, Elamin Abualas1, Shahinaz Bedri, Mahgoub Taj Elsir, Mona Fateh El Rahman Omer Mohamed, Abdelhalim Babiker Mahmoud, Amna Ismail Ibrahim Ahmad, Mohammed A. Adam, Sami Altalib, Ola Adil DafaAllah, Salahaldin Abdallah Hmed, Andrew S. Azman, Iza Ciglenecki, Etienne Gignoux, Alan González, Christine Mwongera, and Manuel Albela MirandaComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland (W. Moser, A.S. Azman, I. Ciglenecki, A. González, C. Mwongera, M. Albela Miranda); Médecins Sans Frontières, Khartoum (M.T. Elsir, A.B. Mahmoud, A.I.I. Ahmad, M.A. Adam, S. Altalib, O.A. DafaAllah, S.A. Hmed); Khartoum State Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan (M.AH. Fahal, E. Abualas, S. Bedri, M.T. Elsir, M.F.E.R.O. Mohamed, O.A. DafaAllah); National Public Health Laboratory, Khartoum (E. Abualas, S. Bedri, O.A. DafaAllah); University of Khartoum, Khartoum (A.B. Mahmoud, M.A. Adam, S. Altalib); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (A.S. Azman); University of Geneva, Geneva (A.S. Azman); Epicentre, Paris, France (E. Gignoux)

Main Article

Table 1

SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence test results by age group in cross-sectional survey, Omdurman, Sudan*

Age group RDT results
 Adjusted results
% Positive (95% CI) Relative risk (95% CI) p value† Seroprevalence (95% CI) Relative risk (95% CI) p value†
<5 y, = 299 18.7 (14.7–23.5) 0.4 (0.3–0.5) <0.001 29.0 (22.4–36.9) 0.3 (0.3–0.4) <0.001
5–19 y, = 786 30.6 (27.5–33.9) 0.6 (0.5–0.7) <0.001 48.5 (43.3–53.9) 0.6 (0.5–0.6) <0.001
20–34 y, = 629 35.5 (31.8–39.3) 0.7 (0.6–0.8) <0.001 56.5 (50.5–62.8) 0.7 (0.6–0.7) <0.001
35–49 y, = 342 39.5 (34.4–44.7) 0.8 (0.7–0.9) 0.006 63.1 (54.8–71.8) 0.8 (0.7–0.9) <0.001
>50 y, = 319
 50.2 (44.7–55.6)
 Referent
80.7 (71.7–89.7)
 Referent
Overall, = 2,375 34.3 (32.4–36.2)
54.6 (51.4–57.8)

*RDT, rapid diagnostic test; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. †p values indicate the difference in relative risk between the oldest age group (≥50 y) as reference and the other age groups.

Main Article

1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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