Comparison of residential dormitory COVID-19 monitoring via weekly saliva testing and sewage monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater surveillance has been used as a tool for COVID-19 outbreak detection particularly where there was not capability in place for routine and robust individual testing. Given clinical reports that earlier detection is possible following infection from throat/nasal samples compared to fecal samples for COVID-19 patients, the utility of wastewater testing where robust individual testing is possible is less clear. The objective of this study was to compare the results of weekly required COVID-19 saliva tests to weekly wastewater monitoring for residential buildings (i.e., dormitories) located across three college campuses capturing wastewater from 80 to 441 occupants per sampling location. Sampling occurred during the spring semester of the 2021 academic year which captured the third w

SUBMITTER: Fahrenfeld NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8611854 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature