SARS-CoV-2 Infections in a Triad of Primary School Learners (Grades 1-7), Their Parents, and Teachers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional and Nested Case-Cohort Study

Reshmi Dassaye   ¹ , MMedSci, PhD ;   Terusha Chetty   ^{1, 2} , MBChB, PhD ;   Brodie Daniels   ¹ , PhD ;   Zakir Gaffoor   ¹ , MSc ;   Elizabeth Spooner   ¹ , MBChB, PhD ;   Trisha Ramraj   ¹ , MSc ;   Ncengani Mthethwa   ¹ , BA, PGCE, PGDP, MPhil ;   Duduzile Faith Nsibande   ¹ , MPH ;   Saresha Pillay   ¹ , MBChB ;   Arvin Bhana   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Vuyolwethu Magasana   ¹ , MPH ;   Tarylee Reddy   ⁵ , MSc, PhD ;   Khanya Mohlabi   ¹ , BHSc (Hons) ;   Penelope Linda Moore   ^{6, 7, 8} , PhD ;   Wendy A Burgers   ^{9, 10, 11} , PhD ;   Tulio de Oliveira   ^{11, 12, 13, 14} , PhD ;   Nokukhanya Msomi   ^{15, 16} , MBChB, PhD ;   Ameena Goga   ^{1, 17} , MBChB, MSc, PhD

¹ HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

² Discipline of Public Health Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

³ Center for Rural Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

⁴ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa

⁵ Biostatistics Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa

⁶ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Durban, South Africa

⁷ National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁸ South African Medical Research Council Antibody Immunity Research Unit, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁹ Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹⁰ Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹¹ Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹² Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, School of Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

¹³ KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

¹⁴ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

¹⁵ Discipline of Virology, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

¹⁶ National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa

¹⁷ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa