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WATER RESEARCH
卷 203, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117534
关键词
COVID-19; Wastewater-based epidemiology; SARS-CoV-2; Environmental surveillance; Sewage; Coronavirus
资金
- Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
- Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC)
- Ministry of Health (MS), Secretariat of Science, Technology, Innovation and Strategic Inputs -Decit/SCTIE 07/2020 [402432/2020-7]
The study conducted in the ABC Region of Brazil demonstrated the viability of using wastewater surveillance to estimate COVID-19 prevalence by tracking SARS-CoV-2 viral load, which showed a positive correlation with epidemiological data. The predicted prevalence based on wastewater data was slightly higher than reported, suggesting the potential utility of this method in predicting outbreaks and tracing infection clusters.
SARS-CoV-2, the novel Coronavirus, was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and has since spread rapidly, causing millions of deaths worldwide. As in most countries of the world, in Brazil, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been catastrophic. Several studies have reported the fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA titers from infected symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals. Therefore, the quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater can be used to track the virus spread in a population. In this study, samples of untreated wastewater were collected for 44 weeks at five sampling sites in the ABC Region (Sao Paulo, Brazil), in order to evaluate the SARS-CoV-2 occurrence in the sewerage system. SARS-CoV-2 RNA titers were detected throughout the period, and the concentration ranged from 2.7 to 7.7 log(10) genome copies.L-1, with peaks in the last weeks of monitoring. Furthermore, we observed a positive correlation between the viral load in wastewater and the epidemiological/clinical data, with the former preceding the latter by approximately two weeks. The COVID-19 prevalence for each sampling site was estimated via Monte-Carlo simulation using the wastewater viral load. The mean predicted prevalence ranged 0.05 to 0.38%, slightly higher than reported (0.016 +/- 0.005%) in the ABC Region for the same period. These results highlight the viability of the wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 infection monitoring in the largest urban agglomeration in South America. This approach can be especially useful for health agencies and public decision-makers in predicting SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, as well as in local tracing of infection clusters.
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