{"id":9004,"date":"2020-08-12T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:16:58","slug":"first-detection-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-wastewater-in-north-america-a-study-in-louisiana-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/12\/first-detection-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-wastewater-in-north-america-a-study-in-louisiana-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"First Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater in North America: A Study in Louisiana, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"7\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Scherchan\u00a0et al. report on SARS-CoV-2 RNA\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">detection\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in wastewater samples in southern Louisiana. While viral RNA was detected in 2 out of 15<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wastewater samples,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">v<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">iral RNA<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">only detected in untreated samples and was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">not detected in any secondary treated or final effluent samples.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sherchan\u00a0et al. (June 2020). First Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater in North America: A Study in Louisiana, USA. The Science of the Total Environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.140621\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.140621<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scherchan\u00a0et al. report on SARS-CoV-2 RNA\u00a0detection\u00a0in wastewater samples in southern Louisiana. While viral RNA was detected in 2 out of 15\u00a0wastewater samples,\u00a0viral RNA\u00a0was\u00a0only detected in untreated samples and was\u00a0not detected in any secondary treated or final effluent samples.\u00a0\u00a0 Sherchan\u00a0et al. (June 2020). First Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater in North America: A Study in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/12\/first-detection-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-wastewater-in-north-america-a-study-in-louisiana-usa\/\">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":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","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=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9005,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}