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SUBMITTER: Lara-Jacobo LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8982736 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lara-Jacobo Linda R LR Islam Golam G Desaulniers Jean-Paul JP Kirkwood Andrea E AE Simmons Denina B D DBD
Environmental science & technology 20220329 8
The recent COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed the health system worldwide, and there was a need to track outbreaks and try to use this information as an early warning system. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) enabled detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater treatment plant influents. Until now, the most used technique for this detection has been the quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-based quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. This study proposes a mass spectrometry (MS)-based method ...[more]