Detección de material genético de SARS-CoV-2 en muestras ambientales de aguas residuales y material particulado PM10.

CARBALLEDA, JUAN M.

Congreso; V Congreso Argentino de Microbiología Agrícola y ambiental; 2021

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) in a brief report about the status of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 indicated that approaches are needed that can be applied in lower-resource settings, where a greater proportion of the population is not connected to sewers and instead uses pit toilets or septic tanks. Possibilities include testing surface water contaminated by sewage. In this study we measured SARS-CoV-2 RNA from a surface water source in a low-income settlement. We observe for this community that measurements of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in surface water contaminated by sewage can be considered as an estimation of changes in COVID-19 prevalence on a population level.