Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 spread using wastewater-based epidemiology: Comprehensive study.

ABSTRACT: SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is having a devastating effect on human lives. Recent reports have shown that majority of the individuals recovered from COVID-19 have serious health complications, which is going to be a huge economic burden globally. Given the wide-spread transmission of SARS-CoV-2 it is almost impossible to test every individual in densely populated countries. Recent reports have shown that sewage-based surveillance can be used as holistic approach to understand the spread of the pandemic within a population or area. Here we have estimated the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the city of Hyderabad, India, which is a home for nearly 10 million people. The sewage samples were collected from all the major sewage treatment plants (STPs) and were processed for detecting the viral genome using the

SUBMITTER: Hemalatha M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787060 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature