Publication date: Sep 04, 2025
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was a major public health challenge globally and in Ghana. To prepare better for future pandemics, an evidence-based understanding of the determinants of the coronavirus disease is essential to inform public health guidelines and surveillance. Thus, we identified the factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in Hohoe Municipality. We conducted a facility-based, sex and age-matched (1:2) case-control study. Cases were persons with a laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection by Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) or rapid antigen test, while controls tested negative with the same techniques. Data on sociodemographic, clinical, and exposure-related factors were collected through structured interviews. We employed a conditional regression model to establish the factors independently associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection using Stata version 17.0. All statistical tests were two-sided, and a p-value
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| Biostatistics | Acute |
| Coronavirus | Based |
| Gmail | Control |
| Ibrahim12 | Coronavirus |
| Severe | Cov |
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| Ghana | |
| Hohoe | |
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| Municipality | |
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Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Infection |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Tropicamide |
| pathway | KEGG | Coronavirus disease |
| disease | MESH | SARS-CoV-2 infection |
| pathway | REACTOME | SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
| disease | IDO | facility |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Coenzyme M |