Evaluation of the SARS-CoV-2 positivity ratio and upper respiratory tract viral load among asymptomatic individuals screened before hospitalization or surgery in Flanders, Belgium

• Laura Heireman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Heireman, Steven Abrams

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-9605

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• Steven Abrams ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Heireman, Steven Abrams

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Data Science Institute, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, Global Health Institute, Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Peggy Bruynseels,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Reinoud Cartuyvels,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium

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• Lize Cuypers,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Center for Respiratory Pathogens, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Pieter De Schouwer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Wim Laffut,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Heilig Hart Hospital, Lier, Belgium

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• Katrien Lagrou,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and National Reference Center for Respiratory Pathogens, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Niel Hens,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Data Science Institute, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1881-0637

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• Erwin Ho,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Sint-Maarten Hospital, Mechelen, Belgium

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• Elizaveta Padalko,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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• Marijke Reynders,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Sint-Jan Hospital, Bruges, Belgium

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• Sarah Vandamme,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Nathalie Van der Moeren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Walter Verstrepen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Philippe Willems,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine GasthuisZusters Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Reinout Naesens

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: reinout.naesens@zna.be

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

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