SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases

Wastewater surveillance represents a complementary approach to clinical surveillance to measure the presence and prevalence of emerging infectious diseases like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This innovative data source can improve the precision of epidemiological modeling to understand the penet...

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Main Authors: Wu, Fuqing (Author), Zhang, Jianbo (Author), Xiao, Amy (Author), Gu, Xiaoqiong (Author), Lee, Wei Lin (Author), Armas, Federica (Author), Kauffman, Kathryn (Author), Hanage, William (Author), Matus, Mariana (Author), Ghaeli, Newsha (Author), Endo, Noriko (Author), Duvallet, Claire (Author), Poyet, Mathilde (Author), Moniz, Katya H (Author), Washburne, Alex D. (Author), Erickson, Timothy B. (Author), Chai, Peter R. (Author), Thompson, Janelle (Author), Alm, Eric J (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology, 2020-07-27T16:10:50Z.
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