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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2021

First detection of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the vicinity of COVID-19 isolation Centre in Bangladesh: Variation along the sewer network.

Firoz Ahmed, Md Aminul Islam, Manish Kumar, Maqsud Hossain, Prosun Bhattacharya, Md Tahmidul Islam, Foysal Hossen, Md Shahadat Hossain, Md Sydul Islam, Md Main Uddin and 5 more

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Firoz AhmedDepartment of Microbiology, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh. Electronic address: firoz@nstu.edu.bd.
Md Aminul IslamDepartment of Microbiology, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Manish KumarDiscipline of Earth Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382 355, India. Electronic address: manish.kumar@iitgn.ac.in.
Maqsud HossainDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.
Prosun BhattacharyaCOVID-19 Research@KTH, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden.
Md Tahmidul IslamCOVID-19 Research@KTH, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden.
Foysal HossenDepartment of Microbiology, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Md Shahadat HossainDepartment of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Md Sydul IslamDepartment of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Md Main UddinDepartment of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Md Nur IslamDepartment of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Newaz Mohammed BahadurDepartment of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Md Didar-Ul-AlamProfessor and Honorable Vice-Chancellor, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh.
Hasan Mahmud RezaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh.
Md JakariyaDepartment of Environmental Science and Management, North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh. Electronic address: md.jakariya@northsouth.edu.
Noakhali Science and Technology University · BDNorth South University · BDKTH Royal Institute of Technology · SEIndian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We made the first and successful attempt to detect SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the vicinity wastewaters of an isolation centre i.e. Shaheed Bhulu Stadium, situated at Noakhali, Southeastern Bangladesh. Owing to the fact that isolation centre, in general, always contained a constant number of 200 COVID-19 patients, the prime objective of the study was to check if several drains carrying RNA of coronavirus are actually getting diluted or accumulated along with the sewage network. Our finding suggested that while the temporal variation of the genetic load decreased in small drains over the span of 50 days, the main sewer exhibited accumulation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Other interesting finding displays that probably distance of sampling location in meters is not likely to have a significant impact on the detected gene concentration, although the quantity of the RNA extracted in the downstream of the drain was higher. These findings are of immense value from the perspective of wastewater surveillance of COVID-19, as they largely imply that we do not need to monitor every wastewater system, and probably major drains monitoring may illustrate the city health. Perhaps, we are reporting the accumulation of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material along with the sewer network i.e. from primary to tertiary drains. The study sought further data collection in this line to simulate conditions prevailed in most of the developing countries and to shed further light on decay/accumulation processes of the genetic load of the SARS-COV-2.

Indexed as

COVID-19SARS-CoV-2BangladeshCitiesHumansRNA, ViralWastewaterRNA, ViralWastewaterCOVID-19Environmental surveillanceIsolation CentreSARS-COV-2Sewage waste

Identifiers

PMID33652314
PMCPMC7870435
OpenAlexW3128957549

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