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Genetic sequencing detected the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant in wastewater a month prior to the first COVID-19 case in Ahmedabad (India).
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) - 1 Oct 2022
Joshi Madhvi, Kumar Manish, Srivastava Vaibhav, Kumar Dinesh, Rathore Dalip Singh, Pandit Ramesh, Graham David W, Joshi Chaitanya G
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Wastewater-based genomic surveillance can identify a huge majority of variants shed by the infected individuals within a population, which goes beyond genomic surveillance based on clinical samples (i.e., symptomatic patients only). We analyzed four samples to detect key mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome and track circulating variants in Ahmedabad during the first wave (Sep/Nov 2020) and before the second wave...
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