{"id":10202,"date":"2021-06-04T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:34:28","slug":"a-comparison-of-four-commercially-available-rna-extraction-kits-for-wastewater-surveillance-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-college-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/04\/a-comparison-of-four-commercially-available-rna-extraction-kits-for-wastewater-surveillance-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-college-population\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comparison of Four Commercially Available RNA Extraction Kits for Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in a College Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A comparison of four commercially available RNA extraction kits found that the Zymo Quick-RNA Viral kit yielded the most consistent, timely, and accurate results for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater from a college campus. Although wastewater-based surveillance has been performed as an early detection system for enteric viruses, most of these viruses are non-enveloped, whereas SARS-CoV-2 is enveloped, which makes detection of viral RNA challenging. The authors note that the Zymo kit may be best suited for smaller population densities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O\u2019Brian et al.\u00a0(June 3, 2021). A Comparison of Four Commercially Available RNA Extraction Kits for Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in a College Population. Pre-print downloaded Jun 4 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.06.01.21257858\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.06.01.21257858<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A comparison of four commercially available RNA extraction kits found that the Zymo Quick-RNA Viral kit yielded the most consistent, timely, and accurate results for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater from a college campus. Although wastewater-based surveillance has been performed as an early detection system for enteric viruses, most of these viruses&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/04\/a-comparison-of-four-commercially-available-rna-extraction-kits-for-wastewater-surveillance-of-sars-cov-2-in-a-college-population\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,108],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-wastewater","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10203,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}