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SUBMITTER: Fischer B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7376847 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20200701 28
Most cases of coronavirus disease 2019 are mild or asymptomatic. Therefore, many cases remain unrecorded. We determined seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 3,186 regular blood donors in three German federal states between 9 March and 3 June 2020. The IgG seroprevalence was 0.91% (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.58-1.24) overall, ranging from 0.66% (95% CI: 0.13-1.19) in Hesse to 1.22% (95% CI: 0.33-2.10) in Lower-Saxony. ...[more]