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Detection of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in wastewater, using the existing environmental surveillance network: An epidemiological gateway to an early warning for COVID-19 in communities.

2020-06-05 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARs-CoV-2 was transmitted person to person via droplet infections and fecal-oral transmission. This illustrates the probability of environmentally facilitated transmission, mainly the sewage. MethodWe used existing Pakistan polio environment surveillance network to investigate presence of SARs-CoV-2 using three commercially available kits and E-Gene detection published assay for surety and confirmatory of positivity. A Two-phase separation meth...

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