Article
Sampling Manholes to Home in on SARS-CoV-2 Infections
2020-06-26
Abstract excerpt
Many individuals infected with the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) suffer from intestinal infection as well as respiratory infection. These COVID-19-suffering individuals shed virus in their stool, resulting in municipal sewage systems carrying the virus and its genetic remnants. These viral traces can be detected in the sewage entering a wastewater treatment plant (WTP), often resulting in accurate estimates of th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 41627418-23e8-574e-90b2-3cf53c365a29
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.3631095
