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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Tanzania: results from a cross-sectional study documenting the Omicron wave in five regions of Tanzania.
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SUBMITTER: Mfinanga SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC12866290 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Tanzania: results from a cross-sectional study documenting the Omicron wave in five regions of Tanzania.
BMC public health 20260103 1
BACKGROUND: Between August and October 2021, before the Omicron wave and before COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in Tanzania, two studies estimated that half of the population in Zanzibar and Mwanza in Tanzania had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. From May 2020 to Dec 2021, Tanzania adopted a very different COVID-19 mitigation strategy with no lockdowns or quarantines and limited community-level COVID-19 testing. We conducted population-based SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence surveys in five regions of T ...[more]