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Feasibility of establishing a serosurveillance system using residual specimens from district-level hospitals: A case study in Choma and Ndola Districts of Zambia

2026-01-13 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Residual blood specimens collected at health care facilities provide a low-cost and readily available specimen source to monitor population immunity through serological surveillance compared to more resource-intensive probability-based surveys. Despite concerns about the representativeness of these specimens, there has recently been increased interest in the use of residual specimens, driven by the need for rapid estimates of seroprevalence during outbreaks to inform response and prevention. Alt...

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