Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of Omicron in South Africa

R.C. Pulliam, Juliet; van Schalkwyk, Cari; Govender, Nevashan; von Gottberg, Anne; Cohen, Cheryl; J. Groome, Michelle; Dushoff, Jonathan; Mlisana, Koleka; Moultrie, Harry

doi:10.1126/science.abn4947

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Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of Omicron in South Africa

Published in Science • Mar 15, 2022

Authors:

Juliet R.C. Pulliam

Cari van Schalkwyk

Nevashan Govender

Abstract

We provide two methods for monitoring reinfection trends in routine surveillance data to identify signatures of changes in reinfection risk and apply these approaches to data from South Africa's severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic to date. Although we found no evide...

Subject

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Virology

Pneumonia

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