Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in a sample of the Lithuanian population-based study in Spring 2023

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Simanavičius, M
Kučinskaitė-Kodzė, I
Kaselienė, S
Sauliūnė, S
Gudas, D
Jančorienė, L
Jasinskienė, R
Vitkauskienė, A
Žūtautienė, R
Žvirblienė, A
Stankūnas, M
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Objectives Despite positive trends in SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology, seroprevalence surveys remain an important tool for estimating the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) and spike (S) proteins in a sample of the Lithuanian population (N = 517) and evaluate how the pattern of seropositivity correlates with the levels of SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination. Methods Study participants (aged 18–88 years) filled in the questionnaire self-reporting their demographic-social variables, health status, and SARS-CoV-2-related status. The anti-S and anti-N IgG levels were estimated using a microarray ELISA test. Results After several pandemic waves and vaccination campaign, the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG in the analyzed sample was 97.87 % by March–May 2023. We determined the 96.91 % prevalence of anti-S and 58.03 % prevalence of anti-N IgG. The majority of study participants (71.18 %) had hybrid immunity induced by vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection. 20.3 % of study participants were anti-N IgG positive without reporting any previous symptoms or a positive SARS-CoV-2 test. A decline of anti-N IgG positivity within 9 months after infection was observed. Conclusions This study demonstrates high total seroprevalence in March–May 2023 in all age groups indicating a widely established humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in Lithuania.

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© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Simanavičius, M; Kučinskaitė-Kodzė, I; Kaselienė, S; Sauliūnė, S; Gudas, D; Jančorienė, L; Jasinskienė, R; Vitkauskienė, A; Žūtautienė, R; Žvirblienė, A; Stankūnas, M, Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in a sample of the Lithuanian population-based study in Spring 2023, Heliyon, 2024, 10 (8), pp. e29343

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