Implementing Serosurveys in India: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Recommendations

This article shares lessons learned through implementing nine measles and rubella household serosurveys in five districts in India-the challenges faced, the potential impact on results, and recommendations to facilitate the conduct of serosurveys. Specific lessons learned arose from challenges related to community mobilization owing to lack of cooperation in certain settings and populations, limitations of outdated census information, nonresponse due to refusal or unavailability during survey enumeration and enrollment, data collection issues, and specimen collection and handling issues. Although some experiences are specific to serosurveys in India, these lessons are generalizable to other household surveys, particularly vaccination coverage and serosurveys conducted in low- and middle-income settings.PMID:34607310 | DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.21-0401

Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - October 4, 2021 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Alvira Z Hasan Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar Christine Prosperi Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj R Sabarinathan Saravana Kumar Augustine Duraiswamy Ojas Kaduskar Vaishali Bhatt Gururaj Rao Deshpande Padinjaremattathil Thankappan Ullas Gajanan N Sapkal Lucky San Source Type: research