SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detection in Wastewater and Its Effective Correlation with Clinical Data during the Outbreak of COVID-19 in Salamanca.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are the final stage of the anthropogenic water cycle where a wide range of chemical and biological markers of human activity can be found. In COVID-19 disease contexts, wastewater surveillance has been used to infer community trends based on viral abundance and SARS-CoV-2 RNA variant composition, which has served to anticipate and establish appropriate protocols to prevent potential viral outbreaks. Numerous studies worldwide have provided reliable and robust tools to detect and quantify SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater, although due to the high dilution and degradation rate of the viral RNA in such samples, the detection limit of the pathogen has been a bottleneck for the proposed protocols so far. The current work provides a comprehensive and systematic st

SUBMITTER: Martinez de Alba AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11311535 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature