Wastewater early warning system for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks and variants in a Coruna, Spain.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater-based epidemiology has been widely used as a cost-effective method for tracking the COVID-19 pandemic at the community level. Here we describe COVIDBENS, a wastewater surveillance program running from June 2020 to March 2022 in the wastewater treatment plant of Bens in A Coruña (Spain). The main goal of this work was to provide an effective early warning tool based in wastewater epidemiology to help in decision-making at both the social and public health levels. RT-qPCR procedures and Illumina sequencing were used to weekly monitor the viral load and to detect SARS-CoV-2 mutations in wastewater, respectively. In addition, own statistical models were applied to estimate the real number of infected people and the frequency of each emerging variant circulating in the community, whi

SUBMITTER: Trigo-Tasende N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10247271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature