Sars-Cov-2 Monitoring in Municipal Wastewaters of Three Canadian Cities with Different Population Sizes as Driven by the Delta and Omicron Variants and Their Sub-Lineages
26 Pages Posted: 18 Apr 2022
Abstract
Highlights• Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 RNA was measured in three wastewater treatment plants serving communities with different population sizes• Whole-genome sequencing of RNA from wastewater revealed AY.12, AY.25, AY.27, AY.93 as common AY-lineages• Omicron became the dominant VOC within a short time in the three cities• Traces of Omicron-sub-lineage BA.2 were detected through sequencing at the sub-consensus level.
Keywords: wastewater, Variant of Concerns, SARS-COV-2 RNA, Chemical tracer, BA.1, BA.2
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Oloye, Femi Francis and XIE, YUWEI and Asadi, Mohsen and Cantin, Jenna and Challis, Jonathan K. and Brinkmann, Markus and McPhedran, Kerry and Kristian, Kevin and Keller, Mark and Sadowski, Mike and Jones, Paul D. and Landgraff, Chrystal and Mangat, Chand and Fuzzen, Meghan and Servos, Mark R. and Giesy, John, Sars-Cov-2 Monitoring in Municipal Wastewaters of Three Canadian Cities with Different Population Sizes as Driven by the Delta and Omicron Variants and Their Sub-Lineages. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4086335 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4086335
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