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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2024

Persistence of human respiratory viral RNA in wastewater-settled solids.

Mengyang Zhang, Laura Roldan-Hernandez, Alexandria Boehm

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mengyang ZhangDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Laura Roldan-HernandezDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Alexandria BoehmDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8162-5090
Stanford University · US

Funding

Stanford Knight-Hennessy ProgramSU | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as a valuable tool for monitoring respiratory viral diseases within communities by analyzing concentrations of viral nucleic-acids in wastewater. However, little is known about the fate of respiratory virus nucleic-acids in wastewater. Two important fate processes that may modulate their concentrations in wastewater as they move from household drains to the point of collection include sorption or partitioning to wastewater solids and degradation. This study investigated the decay kinetics of genomic nucleic-acids of seven human respiratory viruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human coronavirus (HCoV)-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, human rhinovirus (HRV), and influenza A virus (IAV), as well as pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) in wastewater solids. Viruses (except for PMMoV) were spiked into wastewater solids and their concentrations were followed for 50 days at three different temperatures (4°C, 22°C, and 37°C). Viral genomic RNA decayed following first-order kinetics with decay rate constants

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Nucleic AcidsRespiratory Tract InfectionsTobamovirusVirusesHumansRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2WastewaterWastewater-Based Epidemiological MonitoringNucleic AcidsRNA, ViralWastewaterhuman respiratory virusespersistencewastewater-based epidemiologywastewater solids

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PMID38501669
PMCPMC11022535
OpenAlexW4392955089

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