Nicole Acosta, María A Bautista, Barbara J Waddell, Janine McCalder, Alexander Buchner Beaudet, Lawrence Man, Puja Pradhan, Navid Sedaghat, Chloe Papparis, Andra Bacanu, Jordan Hollman, Alexander Krusina, Danielle A Southern, Tyler Williamson, Carmen Li, Srijak Bhatnagar, Sean Murphy, Jianwei Chen, Darina Kuzma, Rhonda Clark, Jon Meddings, Jia Hu, Jason L Cabaj, John M Conly, Xiaotian Dai, Xuewen Lu, Thierry Chekouo, Norma J Ruecker, Gopal Achari, M Cathryn Ryan, Kevin Frankowski, Casey R J Hubert, Michael D Parkins
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an emerging surveillance tool that has been used to monitor the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by tracking SARS-CoV-2 RNA shed into wastewater. WBE was performed to monitor the occurrence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 from three wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and six neighborhoods in the city of Calgary, Canada (population 1.44 million). A total of 222 WWTP and 192 neighborhood samples were collected from June 2020 to May 2021, encompassing the end of the first-wave (June 2020), the second-wave (November end to December 2020) and the third-wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (mid-April to May 2021)...
May 14, 2022: Water Research