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Evaluation of Two Methods to Concentrate SARS-CoV-2 from Untreated Wastewater.


ABSTRACT: Use of wastewater-based epidemiology as a tool to record and manage the course of SARS-CoV-2 infections in human populations requires information about the efficiency of methods to concentrate the virus from wastewater. In the present study, we spiked untreated wastewater with quantified SARS-CoV-2 positive clinical material and enriched the virus by polyethylene glycol precipitation and ultrafiltration with Vivaspin 10 kDa MWCO columns. SARS-CoV-2 was detected and quantified by reverse transcription quantitative PCR (E- and S-gene) and droplet digital PCR. The concentration of virus with precipitation resulted in mean recoveries between 59.4% and 63.7% whereas rates from 33.0% to 42.6% after ultrafiltration of samples were demonstrated. The results suggest that the use of both methods allows an effective and practicable enrichment of SARS-CoV-2 from raw wastewater.

SUBMITTER: Dumke R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7917696 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of Two Methods to Concentrate SARS-CoV-2 from Untreated Wastewater.

Dumke Roger R   de la Cruz Barron Magali M   Oertel Reinhard R   Helm Björn B   Kallies Rene R   Berendonk Thomas U TU   Dalpke Alexander A  

Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20210212 2


Use of wastewater-based epidemiology as a tool to record and manage the course of SARS-CoV-2 infections in human populations requires information about the efficiency of methods to concentrate the virus from wastewater. In the present study, we spiked untreated wastewater with quantified SARS-CoV-2 positive clinical material and enriched the virus by polyethylene glycol precipitation and ultrafiltration with Vivaspin 10 kDa MWCO columns. SARS-CoV-2 was detected and quantified by reverse transcri  ...[more]

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