20-Month monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater of Curitiba, in Southern Brazil.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the collapse of healthcare systems and led to the development and application of several approaches of wastewater-based epidemiology to monitor infected populations. The main objective of this study was to carry out a SARS-CoV-2 wastewater based surveillance in Curitiba, Southern Brazil Sewage samples were collected weekly for 20 months at the entrance of five treatment plants representing the entire city and quantified by qPCR using the N1 marker. The viral loads were correlated with epidemiological data. The correlation by sampling points showed that the relationship between the viral loads and the number of reported cases was best described by a cross-correlation function, indicating a lag between 7 and 14 days amidst the variables, whereas the data for

SUBMITTER: Belmonte-Lopes R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10224667 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature