High Infection Attack Rate after SARS-CoV-2 Delta Surge, Chattogram, Bangladesh

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 491 - 492
• Main Authors: Hegde, Sonia T, Bhuiyan, Taufiqur Rahman, Akhtar, Marjahan, Islam, Taufiqul, Hulse, Juan Dent, Khan, Zahid Hasan, Khan, Ishtiakul Islam, Ahmed, Shakeel, Rashid, Mamunur, Rashid, Rumana, Gurley, Emily S, Shirin, Tahmina, Khan, Ashraful Islam, Azman, Andrew S, Qadri, Firdausi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-02-2022; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Age groups; attack rate; Bangladesh; Bangladesh - epidemiology; coronavirus disease; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Delta variant; Diagnostic Tests, Routine; Disease control; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Humans; Incidence; Infectious diseases; Pandemics; Public health; Risk factors; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Statistics; Bangladesh; United States > US; Switzerland; Baltimore Maryland; COVID-19; Bangladesh; SARS-CoV-2; attack rate; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; zoonoses; Delta variant; coronavirus disease; respiratory infections; seroepidemiologic studies
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2802.212417

To the Editor: After an initial serosurvey (1) to understand the prevalence of total antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in residents of the Sitakunda subdistrict was completed, a large epidemic wave hit the area, and nearly all publicly available samples genotyped via GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org) were the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (2,3). Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA (S.T. Hegde, J.Dent Hulse, E.S. Gurley, A.S. Azman); International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (T.R. Bhuiyan, M. Akhtar, T. Islam, Z.H. Khan, I.I. Khan, A.I. Khan, F. Qadri); Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Chattogram, Bangladesh (S. Ahmed, M. Rashid, R. Rashid); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh (T. Shirin); Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (A.S. Azman) Bhuiyan TR, Hulse JD, Hegde ST, Akhtar M, Islam T, Khan ZH, et al. COVID-19 lineages and variants [cited 2021 Nov 21]. http://www.gisaid.org Sonia T. Hegde, Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Marjahan Akhtar, Taufiqul Islam, Juan Dent Hulse, Zahid Hasan Khan, Ishtiakul Islam Khan, Shakeel Ahmed, Mamunur Rashid, Rumana Rashid, Emily S. Gurley, Tahmina Shirin, Ashraful Islam Khan, Andrew S. Azman , and Firdausi Qadri Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA (S.T. Hegde, J.Dent Hulse, E.S. Gurley, A.S. Azman); International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (T.R. Bhuiyan, M. Akhtar, T. Islam, Z.H. Khan, I.I. Khan, A.I. Khan, F. Qadri); Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Chattogram, Bangladesh (S. Ahmed, M. Rashid, R. Rashid); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh (T. Shirin); Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland (A.S. Azman)