Smart toilets for monitoring COVID-19 surges: passive diagnostics and public health

Continued COVID-19 surges have highlighted the need for widespread testing in addition to vaccination for disease containment. SARS-COV-2 RNA can be found in faecal matter, making human stool another potential source for COVID-19 diagnostics. In this commentary, we highlight potential strategies to...

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Autores principales: Ge, T. Jessie, Chan, Carmel T., Lee, Brian J., Liao, Joseph C., Park, Seung-min
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35354937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00582-0
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spelling pubmed-89678432022-04-20 Smart toilets for monitoring COVID-19 surges: passive diagnostics and public health Ge, T. Jessie Chan, Carmel T. Lee, Brian J. Liao, Joseph C. Park, Seung-min NPJ Digit Med Comment Continued COVID-19 surges have highlighted the need for widespread testing in addition to vaccination for disease containment. SARS-COV-2 RNA can be found in faecal matter, making human stool another potential source for COVID-19 diagnostics. In this commentary, we highlight potential strategies to use a smart toilet platform to passively monitor COVID-19 surges, enabling earlier detection of infected individuals and promoting public health. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8967843/ /pubmed/35354937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00582-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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