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Exposure assessment of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and noro...
Gonçalves, J; Franco, AF; Gomes da Silva, P; Rodriguez, E; Diaz, I; González Peña, MJ; Mesquita, JR; Muñoz, R; Garcia-Encina, PThe presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in wastewater and its potential as an airborne transmission source require extensive investigation, particularly in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), where few studies have been conducted. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 and norovirus (NoV) RNA in wastewater and air samples collected from a munici...
Environmental Dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 in a University Hospital during the C...
Gomes da Silva, P; Gonçalves, J; Torres Franco, A; Rodriguez, E; Diaz, I; Orduña Domingo, A; Garcinuño Pérez, S; March Roselló, GA; Dueñas Gutiérrez, CJThe dominant SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) became the main circulating variant among countries by mid 2021. Attention was raised to the increased risk of airborne transmission, leading to nosocomial outbreaks even among vaccinated individuals. Considering the increased number of COVID-19 hospital admissions fueled by the spread of the variant, with Spain showing the highest COVID-19 rates in mainland Eur...
Centralized and decentralized wastewater-based epidemiology to infer COVID-19 t...
Gonçalves, J; Torres-Franco, A; Rodriguéz, E; Diaz, I; Koritnik, T; Silva, PGD; Mesquita, JR; Trkov, M; Paragi, M; Muñoz, R; García-Encina, PAWastewater-based epidemiology has shown to be a promising and innovative approach to measure a wide variety of illicit drugs that are consumed in the communities. In the same way as for illicit drugs, wastewater-based epidemiology is a promising approach to understand the prevalence of viruses in a community-level. The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created an unprecedented burden on publi...