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ReviewJournal of environmental chemical engineering2021

Challenges to detect SARS-CoV-2 on environmental media, the need and strategies to implement the detection methodologies in wastewaters.

Javier E Sanchez-Galan, Grimaldo Ureña, Luis F Escovar, Jose R Fabrega-Duque, Alexander Coles, Zohre Kurt

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Review in Journal of environmental chemical engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Javier E Sanchez-GalanFacultad de Ingeniería de Sistemas Computacionales (FISC), Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama.
Grimaldo UreñaGrupo de Investigación en Biotecnología, Bioinformática y Biología de Sistemas (GIBBS), Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama.
Luis F EscovarEngineering Works Corp., Panama.
Jose R Fabrega-DuqueCentro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas e Hidrotécnicas (CIHH), Universidad Tecnologica de Panama, Panama.
Alexander ColesCentro de Investigaciones Hidráulicas e Hidrotécnicas (CIHH), Universidad Tecnologica de Panama, Panama.
Zohre KurtGrupo de Investigación en Biotecnología, Bioinformática y Biología de Sistemas (GIBBS), Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding risks, putting in place preventative methods to seamlessly continue daily activities are essential tools to fight a pandemic. All social, commercial and leisure activities have an impact on the environmental media. Therefore, to accurately predict the fate and behavior of viruses in the environment, it is necessary to understand and analyze available detection methods, possible transmission pathways and preventative techniques. The aim of this review is to critically analyze and summarize the research done regarding SARS-COV-2 virus detection, focusing on sampling and laboratory detection methods in environmental media. Special attention will be given to wastewater and sewage sludge. This review has summarized the survival of the virus on surfaces to estimate the risk carried by different environmental media (water, wastewater, air and soil) in order to explain which communities are under higher risk. The critical analysis concludes that the detection of SARS-CoV-2 with current technologies and sampling strategies would reveal the presence of the virus. This information could be used to design systematic sampling points throughout the sewage systems when available, taking into account peak flows and more importantly economic factors on when to sample. Such approaches will provide clues for potential future viral outbreak, saving financial resources by reducing testing necessities for viral detection, hence contributing for more appropriate confinement policies by governments and could be further used to define more precisely post-pandemic or additional waves measures if/ when needed.

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Cost-effective outbreak monitoringCOVID-19Environmental mediaPost-pandemic decision making toolSARS-CoV-2Sewage line sampling

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PMID34221893
PMCPMC8239206

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