Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater
After thorough research and collected case studies, many cities and municipalities are adopting strategies to detect and monitor the genetic material of SARS CoV-2 in wastewater. This serves as an early indicator to localize the spread of COVID-19 and offers valuable information for tracking outbreaks and predicting new epicenters of infection.
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European Commission considers Wastewater Monitoring as a complementary and independent approach to COVID-19 surveillance and testing strategies and adopted a recommendation on monitoring COVID-19 and its variants in wastewaters in the EU.
Member States are strongly encouraged to put a national wastewater surveillance system in place as soon as possible, targeted at the systematic data collection of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in wastewaters.
The monitoring system should include at least wastewaters from large cities with over 150,000 inhabitants, preferably with a minimum sampling frequency of two samples per week.
Global wastewater experts agree that further research and best practices are needed to develop and optimize appropriate sample collection, preparation and testing approaches. Untreated wastewater samples need to be prepared easily and efficiently prior to extraction and detection of the SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA using real-time PCR.
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Ultrafiltration is an ideal and widely-used method for viral particle isolation and concentration from water and wasterwater samples prior to detection methods such as RT-PCR.
See how Vivaspin® ultrafilters (with 50 kDa MWCO PES membranes) have been used for concentration of wastewater samples prior to RT-qPCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA: Post-lockdown detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the wastewater of Montpellier, FranceJulie Trottier, Regis Darques, Nassim Ait Mouheb, Emma Partiot, Wiliam Bakhache, Maika S Deffieu, Raphael Gaudin, medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.08.20148882
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