Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage from buildings housing residents with different vulnerability levels.

ABSTRACT: During the last three years, various restrictions have been set up to limit the transmission of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). While these rules apply at a large scale (e.g., country-wide level) human-to-human transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), occurs at a small scale. Different preventive policies and testing protocols were implemented in buildings where COVID-19 poses a threat (e.g., elderly residences) or constitutes a disruptive force (e.g., schools). In this study, we sampled sewage from different buildings (a school, a university campus, a university residence, and an elderly residence) that host residents of different levels of vulnerability. Our main goal was to assess the agreement between the SARS

SUBMITTER: Pico-Tomas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9911146 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature