SARS-CoV-2 infection, the etiologic agent of the current COVID-19 pandemic, is followed by virus shedding in the stool. The quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, therefore, enables monitoring of the prevalence of infections among the population through wastewater-based epidemiology. This ...
Recent studies revealed that patients who are diagnosed with COVID-19 often undergo fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 virus into wastewater, which makes wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance a promising approach to complement traditional clinical testing. In this paper, we survey the ...
Avacta says studies have shown that more than 60% of COVID-19 positive patients have gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting, and so could be shedding virus into the sewerage system. While experts think SARS-CoV-2 does not readily spread in sewage, non-infectious residues...
Dr Johnson added: "We find evidence of people that have been infected for years and are shedding crazy amounts of virus that we can detect them in sewer sheds with over 100,000 people." As of yet, however, there have been no reported rises in hospital admissions which back up theories ...
"The shedding in feces starts very early after someone is infected. It's in fact one of the first signs that we see of infection, which is really important for this early warning capability for wastewater," Kirby said. "We see those rates go up very, very high, so lots of virus shed...
Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, is accompanied by the shedding of the virus in stool. Therefore, the quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater affords the ability to monitor the prevalence of infections among the population via wastewater-based...
Although SARS-CoV-2 surveillance has been applied in more than 50 countries to date, the application of this surveillance has been largely focused on relatively affluent urban and peri-urban communities. As such, there is a knowledge gap regarding the implementation of reliable wastewater ...
“I was looking into the information that was coming out of China to see if there was any fecal shedding, which turned out to be the case, and if people had diarrhea, which also turned out to be the case,” said Medema, the chief microbiologist at KWR Water Research Institute in Nieuwe...
Controversy remains regarding the spread of viral particles suspended in the atmosphere, otherwise known as aerosol spread (Tellier et al., 2019). Furthermore, other routes of viral transmission relevant to the current pandemic, such as wastewater, have been implicated in its spread (D. Liu et ...
Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater can supplement surveillance based on diagnostic testing. In this paper, we report the results of wastewater-based COVID-19 surveillance on Emory University campus that included routine sampling of sewage from a hospital building, an isolation/quarantine ...