During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance of the SARS CoV-2 virus has been demonstrated to be effective for population surveillance at the county level down to the building level. At the University of California, San Diego, daily high-resolution wastewater surveillance conducted at the...
Scaling SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations to population estimates of infection Edward H. Kaplan Alessandro Zulli Jordan Peccia ArticleOpen Access3 Mar 2022 Scientific Reports In hospital risk factors for acute kidney injury and its burden in patients with Sars-Cov-2 infection: a longitudinal ...
Wastewater sequencing reveals early cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission. Nature. 2022;609(7925):101–8. Article PubMed PubMed Central CAS Google Scholar Harris PA, Taylor R, Thielke R, Payne J, Gonzalez N, Conde JG. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)--a metadata-driven ...
Furthermore, other routes of viral transmission relevant to the current pandemic, such as wastewater, have been implicated in its spread (D. Liu et al., 2020). Air pollution and weather patterns have been recently studied for their physical contribution to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. ...
This low- to mid-throughput NGS assay enables labs of any size to identify and track the emergence and prevalence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants.
If you've had more colleagues, friends or relatives who've contracted COVID-19 in the last few weeks than you did a few months ago, data shows you're not alone. CDC officials test wastewater weekly to find out if an infectious disease is circulating in a community — even if people do...
“The illegal transportation and storage of dangerous chemicals and hazardous waste could have easily resulted in a serious injury or death,” said San Diego FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Omer Meisel. “Today’s conviction demonstrates the FBI's commitment to working with our law enforcement ...
"This invaluable information helps direct strategies to mitigate the spread of future viral threats—including our ongoing genomic surveillance methods, such as wastewater testing," says Seema Shah, MD, medical director of San Diego County's epidemiology and immunization services branch. ...
weekly asymptomatic testing of students and daily wastewater monitoring are crucial elements of the university's larger strategy to incrementally repopulate its campus. Due to the effectiveness of Return to Learn, UC San Diego is one of the country's few major colleges that has a large student bo...
wastewater and the COVID-19 clinical data reported by health authorities. The close match between environmental and clinical data from the Salamanca case study has been confirmed by similar experimental approaches in four other cities in the same region. The present methodological approach reinforces ...