Seroprevalence, risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers in Italy early in pandemic

What The Study Did:

This study in the

Lombardy region of Italy

examined the

association of different health care professional categories and operational units, including in-hospital wards and outpatient facilities, with the seroprevalence of positive IgG antibody tests for SARS-CoV-2 and the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Authors:


Piero Poletti, Ph.D., of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in T


rento, Italy, and


Marcello Tirani, M.D., Directorate General for Health, Lombardy region, in Milan,


are the

corresponding authors.

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