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Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives
To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 570 million cases and over 6 million deaths worldwide. Predominant clinical testing methods, though invaluable, may create an inaccurate depiction of COVID-19 prevalence due to inadequate access, testing, or most recently under-reporting because of...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9481015/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36112629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270385 |
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author | Lee, Laura Valmond, Lescia Thomas, John Kim, Audrey Austin, Paul Foster, Michael Matthews, John Kim, Paul Newman, Jamie |
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description | To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 570 million cases and over 6 million deaths worldwide. Predominant clinical testing methods, though invaluable, may create an inaccurate depiction of COVID-19 prevalence due to inadequate access, testing, or most recently under-reporting because of at-home testing. These concerns have created a need for unbiased, community-level surveillance. Wastewater-based epidemiology has been used for previous public health threats, and more recently has been established as a complementary method of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. Here we describe the application of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in two university campus communities located in rural Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This cost-effective approach is especially well suited to rural areas where limited access to testing may worsen the spread of COVID-19 and quickly exhaust the capacity of local healthcare systems. Our work demonstrates that local universities can leverage scientific resources to advance public health equity in rural areas and enhance their community involvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-94810152022-09-17 Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives Lee, Laura Valmond, Lescia Thomas, John Kim, Audrey Austin, Paul Foster, Michael Matthews, John Kim, Paul Newman, Jamie PLoS One Research Article To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 570 million cases and over 6 million deaths worldwide. Predominant clinical testing methods, though invaluable, may create an inaccurate depiction of COVID-19 prevalence due to inadequate access, testing, or most recently under-reporting because of at-home testing. These concerns have created a need for unbiased, community-level surveillance. Wastewater-based epidemiology has been used for previous public health threats, and more recently has been established as a complementary method of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. Here we describe the application of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in two university campus communities located in rural Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This cost-effective approach is especially well suited to rural areas where limited access to testing may worsen the spread of COVID-19 and quickly exhaust the capacity of local healthcare systems. Our work demonstrates that local universities can leverage scientific resources to advance public health equity in rural areas and enhance their community involvement. Public Library of Science 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9481015/ /pubmed/36112629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270385 Text en © 2022 Lee et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lee, Laura Valmond, Lescia Thomas, John Kim, Audrey Austin, Paul Foster, Michael Matthews, John Kim, Paul Newman, Jamie Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
title | Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
title_full | Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
title_fullStr | Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
title_full_unstemmed | Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
title_short | Wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
title_sort | wastewater surveillance in smaller college communities may aid future public health initiatives |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9481015/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36112629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270385 |
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