Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

June 1, 2020

Wastewater Surveillance for Population-Wide Covid-19: The Present and Future

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  • Daughton described the Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) method as a potential tool for containing and mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks. WBE measures chemical signatures in sewage, such as fragment biomarkers from the SARS-CoV-2, by applying clinical diagnostic testing to the collective signature of entire communities.  

Daughton. (May 20, 2020). Wastewater Surveillance for Population-Wide Covid-19: The Present and Future. The Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139631