National sero-surveillance to monitor the trend of SARS-CoV-2 infection transmission in India: Protocol for community-based surveillance

Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar¹, Tarun Bhatnagar¹, Ponnaiah Manickam², V Saravana Kumar³, Kiran Rade⁴, Naman Shah⁵, Shashi Kant⁶, Giridhara R Babu⁷, Sanjay Zodpey⁸, CP Girish Kumar², Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj², Pranab Chatterjee⁹, Suman Kanungo¹⁰, Ravindra Mohan Pandey¹¹, Manoj Murhekar², Sujeet K Singh¹², Swarup Sarkar⁹, JP Muliyi¹³, Raman R Gangakhedkar¹⁴, D.C.S Reddy^15
1 ICMR School of Public Health, Chennai, India
² ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India
³ Division of Epidemiology & Bio-Statistics, Chennai, India
⁴ WHO Country Office for India, New Delhi, India
⁵ Jan Swasthya Sahyog, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
⁶ Centre for Community Medicine, Bengaluru, India
⁷ Indian Institute of Public Health-Bengaluru, India
⁸ Indian Institute of Public Health-Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
⁹ Translational Global Health Policy Research Cell (Department of Health Research), Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
¹⁰ ICMR-National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
¹¹ Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
¹² National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, India
¹³ Independent Consultant, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
¹⁴ Division of Epidemiology & Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
¹⁵ Independent Consultant, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Correspondence Address:
Manoj Murhekar
ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, R127, TNHB, Ayapakkam, Chennai 600 007, Tamil Nadu
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1818_20