Time Evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wastewater during the First Pandemic Wave of COVID-19 in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Spain

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 11 Mar 2021 English Publisher:American Society for MicrobiologyJournal:Applied and Environmental Microbiology, volume 87 (issn: 0099-2240, eissn: 1098-5336,

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Authors: Chavarria-Miró, Gemma; Anfruns-Estrada, Eduard; Martínez-Velázquez, Adán; Vázquez-Portero, Mario; Guix, Susana; Paraira, Miquel; Galofré, Belén; +3 Authors

doi: 10.1128/aem.02750-20

pmid: 33483313

pmc: PMC8091622

handle: 10261/228336

Time Evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wastewater during the First Pandemic Wave of COVID-19 in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Spain

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Abstract

Water-based epidemiology (WBE) is a valuable early warning tool for tracking the circulation of the virus among the population, including not only symptomatic patients, but also asymptomatic, presymptomatic, and misdiagnosed carriers, which represent a high proportion of the infected population. In the specific case of Barcelona, wastewater surveillance anticipated by several weeks not only the original COVID-19 pandemic wave, but also the onset of the second wave.

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Spanish National Research Council
Spain
University of Barcelona (UB)
Spain
Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos
Spain
University of Barcelona
Spain

Keywords

Epidemiology, SARS -CoV -2, Genome, Viral, Wastewater, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Evolution, Molecular, Prevalence, Humans, Cities, Asymptomatic Infections, Early warning, Surveillance, Ecology, Sewage, Public and Environmental Health Microbiology, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Virus Shedding, Waste Disposal Facilities, Spain, Sentinel Surveillance, Food Science, Biotechnology

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