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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LETTERS
卷 9, 期 2, 页码 160-165出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00882
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- National Science Foundation RAPID Grant [2027679]
- CARES Act through the Washington County Cities and Special District Assistance program
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [2027679] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This study assessed the impact of grab versus composite sampling on the detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in different catchment scales. The results showed that as the size of the catchment decreased, grab samples became less accurate while composite samples were able to compensate for temporal signal variability.
With the rapid onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology sampling methodologies for SARS-CoV2 were often implemented quickly and may not have considered the unique drainage catchment characteristics. This study assessed the impact of grab versus composite sampling on the detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in four different catchment scales with flow rates ranging from high flow (wastewater treatment plant influent) to medium flow (neighborhood scale) to low -flow (city block scale) to ultralow flow (building scale). At the high -flow site, grab samples were comparable to 24 h composite samples with SARS-CoV-2 detected in all samples and differed in concentration from the composite by <1 log 10 unit. However, as the size of the catchment decreased, the percentage of negative grab samples increased despite all respective composites being positive, and the SARS-CoV-2 concentrations of grab samples varied from those of the composites by up to almost 2 log 10 units. At the ultra-low -flow site, increased sampling frequencies generated composite samples with higher fidelity to the 5 min composite, which is the closest estimate of the true SARS-CoV-2 composite concentration that could be measured. Thus, composite sampling is more likely to compensate for temporal signal variability while grab samples do not, especially as the catchment basin size decreases.
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