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The fate of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater treatment plants points out the sludge line as a suitable spot for incidence monitoring

2020-05-26 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWSARS-CoV-2 genetic material is detectable in the faeces of a considerable part of COVID-19 cases and hence, in the urban wastewater. This fact was confirmed early during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and prompted several studies that proposed monitoring its incidence by wastewater. This paper studies the fate of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in wastewater treatment plants using RT-qPCR with a two-fold goal: i) to check the safety of the water effluent and also of the ...

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