Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19: An African perspective

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the importance of access to sufficient quantities of safe water and sanitation in public health. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, an early warning wastewater system has been proposed as a platform for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, and a potentially import...

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Autores principales: Street, Renée, Malema, Shirley, Mahlangeni, Nomfundo, Mathee, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7332947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32659559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140719
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spelling pubmed-73329472020-07-06 Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19: An African perspective Street, Renée Malema, Shirley Mahlangeni, Nomfundo Mathee, Angela Sci Total Environ Article The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the importance of access to sufficient quantities of safe water and sanitation in public health. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, an early warning wastewater system has been proposed as a platform for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, and a potentially important public health strategy to combat the disease. This short communication on wastewater surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa highlights challenges, opportunities and alternatives taken into account the local context. Elsevier B.V. 2020-11-15 2020-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7332947/ /pubmed/32659559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140719 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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