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

 

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Autoren: 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
Format: artículo original
Publikationsdatum:2022
Beschreibung: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
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Sprache:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/87553
Online Zugang:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270168
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/87553
Stichwort:SARS-CoV-2
CHILDREN
WASTEWATER
Clinical testing
SCHOOLS

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