Insights into Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from a Population-Based Serological Survey

Citation

Bi, Qifang; Lessler, Justin; Eckerle, Isabella; Lauer, Stephen A.; Kaiser, Laurent; Vuilleumier, Nicolas; Cummings, Derek A. T.; Flahault, Antoine; Petrovic, Dusan; & Guessous, Idris, et al. (2021). Insights into Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from a Population-Based Serological Survey. Nature Communications, 12(1), 3643. PMCID: PMC8206123

Abstract

Understanding the risk of infection from household- and community-exposures and the transmissibility of asymptomatic infections is critical to SARS-CoV-2 control. Limited previous evidence is based primarily on virologic testing, which disproportionately misses mild and asymptomatic infections. Serologic measures are more likely to capture all previously infected individuals. We apply household transmission models to data from a cross-sectional, household-based population serosurvey of 4,534 people

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23733-5

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2021

Journal Title

Nature Communications

Author(s)

Bi, Qifang
Lessler, Justin
Eckerle, Isabella
Lauer, Stephen A.
Kaiser, Laurent
Vuilleumier, Nicolas
Cummings, Derek A. T.
Flahault, Antoine
Petrovic, Dusan
Guessous, Idris
Stringhini, Silvia
Azman, Andrew S.

Article Type

Regular

PMCID

PMC8206123

Data Set/Study

SEROCoVPOP Schools Study

Continent/Country

Switzerland

ORCiD

Lessler - 0000-0002-9741-8109