Primary concentration - The critical step in implementing the wastewater based epidemiology for the COVID-19 pandemic : A mini-review

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The recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has posed a significant global public health threat and caused dramatic social and economic disruptions. A new research direction is attracting a significant amount of attention in the academic community of environmental sciences and engineering, in which rapid community-level monitoring could be achieved by applying the methodology of wastewater based epidemiology (WBE). Given the fact that the development of a mass balance on the total number of viral RNA copies in wastewater samples and the infected stool specimens is the heart of WBE, the result of the quantitative RNA detection in wastewater has to be highly sensitive, accurate, and reliable. Thus, applying effective concentration methods before the subsequent RNA extraction and RT-qPCR detection is a must-have procedure for the WBE. This review provides new insights into the primary concentration methods that have been adopted by the eighteen recently reported COVID-19 wastewater detection studies, along with a brief discussion of the mechanisms of the most commonly used virus concentration methods, including the PEG-based separation, electrostatically charged membrane filtration, and ultrafiltration. In the end, two easy and well-proven concentration strategies are recommended as below, aiming to maximize the practical significance and operational effectiveness of the SARS-CoV-2 virus concentration from wastewater samples.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:747

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 747(2020) vom: 10. Dez., Seite 141245

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lu, Dingnan [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zhuangrong [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Jiayue [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiaoqi [VerfasserIn]
Sha, Sha [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19 wastewater based epidemiology
Electronegative membrane filtration
Journal Article
PEG-based separation
Precondition
Primary concentration
Review
Ultrafiltration

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Date Completed 20.10.2020

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141245

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313437998