Krishna Prasad Paudel, Reuben Samuel, Runa Jha, Basu Dev Pandey, Chathura Edirisuriya, Nebin Lal Shrestha, Pradip Gyawali, Amrit Pokhrel, Lilee Shrestha, Ram Kumar Mahato, Shaikh Shah Hossain, Govindakarnavar Arunkumar, Anindya Sekhar Bose, Meghnath Dhimal, Dipendra Gautam, Subash Neupane, Nishant Thakur, Saugat Shrestha, Nirajan Bhusal, Priya Jha, Binod Prasad Gupta, Rajan Bikram Rayamajhi, Koshal Chandra Subedi, Shashi Kandel, Mukesh Poudel, Lila Bikram Thapa, Guna Nidhi Sharma, Allison Eugenio Gocotano, Avinash K Sunny, Rabin Gautam, Deepak Raj Bhatta, Bal Krishna Awale, Bhola Roka, Hemant Chandra Ojha, Phanindra Baral, Mahendra Dhose Adhikari, Guna Raj Lohani, Mahendra Shrestha, Dipendra Raman Singh, Laxman Aryal, Rajesh Sambhajirao Pandav, Roshan Pokhrel
Few seroprevalence studies have been conducted on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nepal. Here, we aimed to estimate seroprevalence and assess risk factors for infection in the general population of Nepal by conducting two rounds of sampling. The first round was in October 2020, at the peak of the first generalized wave of COVID-19, and the second round in July-August 2021, following the peak of the wave caused by the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. We used cross-sectional probability-to-size (PPS)-based multistage cluster sampling to estimate the seroprevalence in the general population of Nepal at the national and provincial levels...
December 2023: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses