Viruses, Vol. 13, Pages 2354: Emerging Trends in the Epidemiology of COVID-19: The Croatian & lsquo;One Health & rsquo; Perspective

Viruses, Vol. 13, Pages 2354: Emerging Trends in the Epidemiology of COVID-19: The Croatian ‘One Health’ Perspective Viruses doi: 10.3390/v13122354 Authors: Tatjana Vilibic-Cavlek Vladimir Stevanovic Diana Brlek-Gorski Ivana Ferencak Thomas Ferenc Magdalena Ujevic-Bosnjak Irena Tabain Natasa Janev-Holcer Ivana Perkovic Mario Anticevic Barbara Bekavac Bernard Kaic Anna Mrzljak Marin Ganjto Ljiljana Zmak Maja Mauric Maljkovic Pavle Jelicic Lovro Bucic Ljubo Barbic During the four pandemic waves, a total of 560,504 cases and 10,178 deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Croatia. The Alpha variant, dominant from March 2021 (>50% of positive samples), was rapidly replaced by Delta variants (>90%) by August 2021. Several seroprevalence studies were conducted in different populations (general population, children/adolescents, professional athletes, healthcare workers, veterinarians) and in immunocompromised patients (hemodialysis patients, liver/kidney transplant recipients). After the first pandemic wave, seroprevalence rates of neutralizing (NT) antibodies were reported to be 0.2–5.5%. Significantly higher seropositivity was detected during/after the second wave, 2.6–18.7%. Two studies conducted in pet animals (February-June 2020/July–December 2020) reported SARS-CoV-2 NT antibodies in 0.76% of cats and 0.31–14.69% of dogs, respectively. SA...
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