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Monitoring occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in school populations: A wastewater-based approach.
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- Performance and suitability of wastewater based-surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in public schools.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Towards geospatially-resolved public-health surveillance via wastewater sequencing.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Long-term surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the school community from Campo Grande, Brazil.BMC public health · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 detection in pediatric dental clinic wastewater reflects the number of local COVID-19 cases in children under 10 years old.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Online trend estimation and detection of trend deviations in sub-sewershed time series of SARS-CoV-2 RNA measured in wastewater.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Integrating wastewater and randomised prevalence survey data for national COVID surveillance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from hospital wastewater using constructed wetlands: a review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Review
- Campus source to sink wastewater surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).Current research in microbial sciences · 2024Article
- Precision public health in schools enabled by wastewater surveillance: A case study of COVID-19 in an Upstate New York middle-high school campus during the 2021-2022 academic year.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage from buildings housing residents with different vulnerability levels.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Monitoring COVID-19 spread in selected Prague's schools based on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Can wastewater monitoring protect public health in schools?Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Variants Detection Strategies in Wastewater Samples Collected in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region.Viruses · 2023Article
- Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza in preK-12 schools shows school, community, and citywide infections.Water research · 2023Article
- Safer at school early alert: an observational study of wastewater and surface monitoring to detect COVID-19 in elementary schools.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Wastewater and surface monitoring to detect COVID-19 in elementary school settings: The Safer at School Early Alert project.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Does normalization of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations by Pepper Mild Mottle Virus improve correlations and lead time between wastewater surveillance and clinical data in Alberta (Canada): comparing twelve SARS-CoV-2 normalization approaches.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA at K-12 schools: comparison to pooled clinical testing data.PeerJ · 2023Article
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Abstract
Clinical testing of children in schools is challenging, with economic implications limiting its frequent use as a monitoring tool of the risks assumed by children and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, a wastewater-based epidemiology approach has been used to monitor 16 schools (10 primary, 5 secondary and 1 post-16 and further education) in England. A total of 296 samples over 9 weeks have been analysed for N1 and E genes using qPCR methods. Of the samples returned, 47.3% were positive for one or both genes with a detection frequency in line with the respective local community. WBE offers a low cost, non-invasive approach for supplementing clinical testing and can provide longitudinal insights that are impractical with traditional clinical testing.
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