Monitoring occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in school populations: A wastewater-based approach

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Auteurs:	Castro Gutiérrez, Víctor Manuel, Hassard, Francis, Vu, Milan, Leitão, Rodrigo, Burczynska, Beata, Wildeboer, Dirk, Stanton, Isobel, Rahimzadeh, Shadi, Baio, Gianluca, Garelick, Hemda, Hofman, Jan, Kasprzyck Hordern, Barbara, Kwiatkowska, Rachel, Majeed, Azeem, Priest, Sally, Grimsley, Jasmine, Lundy, Lian, Singer, Andrew C., Di Cesare, Mariachiara
Formaat:	artículo original
Publicatiedatum:	2022
Omschrijving:	Clinical testing of children in schools is challenging, with economic implications limiting its frequent use as a monitoring tool of the risks assumed by children and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, a wastewater-based epidemiology approach has been used to monitor 16 schools (10 primary, 5 secondary and 1 post-16 and further education) in England. A total of 296 samples over 9 weeks have been analysed for N1 and E genes using qPCR methods. Of the samples returned, 47.3% were positive for one or both genes with a detection frequency in line with the respective local community. WBE offers a low cost, non-invasive approach for supplementing clinical testing and can provide longitudinal insights that are impractical with traditional clinical testing.
Land:	Kérwá
Instelling:	Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:	Kérwá
Taal:	Inglés
OAI Identifier:	oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/87553
Online toegang:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270168 https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87553
Keyword:	SARS-CoV-2 CHILDREN WASTEWATER Clinical testing SCHOOLS