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Evaluation of low-cost viral concentration methods in wastewaters: Implications for SARS-CoV-2 pandemic surveillances
Journal of Virological Methods ( IF 3.1 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-31 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2021.114249
Matías Salvo 1 , Ana Moller 2 , Elena Alvareda 3 , Pablo Gamazo 3 , Rodney Colina 2 , Matías Victoria 2
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In the pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) many strategies have been performed in order to control viral spread in the population and known the real-time situation about the number of infected persons. In this sense, Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE) has been applied as an excellent tool to evaluate the virus circulation in a population. In order to obtain reliable results, three low-cost viral concentration methods were evaluated in this study, polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation, skimmed milk flocculation (SM) and Aluminum polychloride flocculation, for Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage PP7 as a surrogate for non-enveloped viruses and Bovine Coronavirus (BCoV) as a surrogate for enveloped virus, with emphasis for SARS- CoV-2. Our results suggest that PEG precipitation for viral concentration, for both enveloped and non-enveloped virus from wastewater is an appropriate approach since it was more sensitive compared to SM flocculation and Aluminum polychloride flocculation. This methodology can be used for WBE studies in order to follow the epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, mainly in developing countries where the economic resources are frequently limited.

更新日期:2021-08-04
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