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Project
COVID-19 national surveillance in wastewater: the variants project protocol.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) of SARS-CoV-2 has been used as a complementary indicator to follow up on the trends in the COVID-19 spread in Belgium and in many other countries. To further develop the use of WBE, a multiplex digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) assay was optimized, validated and applied for the measurement of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) in influent wastewater (IWW) samples.
Date:23 May 2022 → 30 Jun 2023
Keywords:RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, SARS-COV2, EPIDEMIOLOGY, RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
Disciplines:Virology, Epidemiology, Infectious diseases