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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 852, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158265
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Wastewater; Environmental surveillance; WBE; Public health; Monkeypox virus
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- Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
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The article describes a method for qualitatively detecting monkeypox virus DNA in wastewater, which may prove to be a valuable surveillance tool for outbreaks.
As of 18 August 2022, 1087 confirmed cases of monkeypox are reported in the Netherlands. Monkeypox virus likely ends up in wastewater because i) skin flakes from areas affected by the typical rash and scabbing may wash off, and ii) monkeypox virus has been detected in animal and human feces. Here we describe a method to qualitatively detect monkeypox virus DNA in wastewater, that may prove a valuable surveillance tool for outbreaks.
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