Parvo B19 serological data from Belgium from 2001-2003 (line listing)

A seroprevalence survey testing for parvovirus B19 IgG antibody, performed on large representative national serum banks in Belgium, England and Wales, Finland, Italy, and Poland. The sera were collected between 1995 and 2004 and were obtained from residual sera submitted for routine laboratory testing.

Usage

parvob19_be_2001_2003

Format

A data frame with 5 variables:

age: Age of individual
seropositive: If the individual is seropositive or not
year: Year surveyed
gender: Gender of individual
parvouml: Parvo B19 antibody units per ml

Source

MOSSONG, J., N. HENS, V. FRIEDERICHS, I. DAVIDKIN, M. BROMAN, B. LITWINSKA, J. SIENNICKA, et al. "Parvovirus B19 Infection in Five European Countries: Seroepidemiology, Force of Infection and Maternal Risk of Infection." Epidemiology and Infection 136, no. 8 (2008): 1059-68. doi:10.1017/S0950268807009661

Examples

# Reproduce Fig 4.5 (left upper panel), p. 68
library(dplyr)
df <- parvob19_be_2001_2003 %>%
  group_by(age) %>%
  summarise(pos = sum(seropositive), tot = n())
plot(df$age, df$pos / df$tot,
  cex = 0.02 * df$tot, pch = 16, xlab = "age", ylab = "seroprevalence",
  xlim = c(0, 82), ylim = c(0, 1)
)