National and sub-national sero-epidemiology of immunoglobulin G against SARS-CoV-2 in Iran in 2021

Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy; Erfan Ghasemi; Narges Ebrahimi; Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi; Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari; Naser Ahmadi; Javad Khanali; Ameneh Kazemi; Arezou Dilmaghani-Marand; Yosef Farzi; Moein Yoosefi; Elham Abdolhamidi; Mana Moghimi; Maryam Nasserinejad; Nima Fattahi; Sina Azadnajafabad; Arefe Alipour-Daroei; Kamyar Rezaee; Shirin Djalalinia; Negar Rezaei; Hamidreza Jamshidi; Farshad Farzadfar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0313795

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National and sub-national sero-epidemiology of immunoglobulin G against SARS-CoV-2 in Iran in 2021

Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy ,

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

¶‡ Joint ﬁrst authors.

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Erfan Ghasemi ,

Roles Visualization

¶‡ Joint ﬁrst authors.

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Narges Ebrahimi,

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-6000

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Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Naser Ahmadi,

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Javad Khanali,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Ameneh Kazemi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Arezou Dilmaghani-Marand,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Yosef Farzi,

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Moein Yoosefi,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Elham Abdolhamidi,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Mana Moghimi,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Maryam Nasserinejad,

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Faculty of Medicine, Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Nima Fattahi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Sina Azadnajafabad,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Arefe Alipour-Daroei,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Kamyar Rezaee,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Shirin Djalalinia,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Deputy of Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
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Negar Rezaei,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Hamidreza Jamshidi,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Farshad Farzadfar

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: f-farzadfar@tums.ac.ir

Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-4046

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National and sub-national sero-epidemiology of immunoglobulin G against SARS-CoV-2 in Iran in 2021

Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy,
Erfan Ghasemi,
Narges Ebrahimi,
Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi,
Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari,
Naser Ahmadi,
Javad Khanali,
Ameneh Kazemi,
Arezou Dilmaghani-Marand,
Yosef Farzi

Published: July 31, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313795

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