Tracking Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Large and Small Communities by Wastewater Monitoring in Alberta, Canada
Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 enables early detection and monitoring of the COVID-19 disease burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. We determined proportions of the Omicron and Delta variants across 30 municipalities covering >75% of the province of Alberta (popul...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9423933 2023-05-15T16:17:38+02:00 Tracking Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Large and Small Communities by Wastewater Monitoring in Alberta, Canada Hubert, Casey R.J. Acosta, Nicole Waddell, Barbara J.M. Hasing, Maria E. Qiu, Yuanyuan Fuzzen, Meghan Harper, Nathanael B.J. Bautista, María A. Gao, Tiejun Papparis, Chloe Van Doorn, Jenn Du, Kristine Xiang, Kevin Chan, Leslie Vivas, Laura Pradhan, Puja McCalder, Janine Low, Kashtin England, Whitney E. Kuzma, Darina Conly, John Ryan, M. Cathryn Achari, Gopal Hu, Jia Cabaj, Jason L. Sikora, Chris Svenson, Larry Zelyas, Nathan Servos, Mark Meddings, Jon Hrudey, Steve E. Frankowski, Kevin Parkins, Michael D. Pang, Xiaoli (Lilly) Lee, Bonita E. 2022-09 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9423933/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35867051 https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2809.220476 en eng Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9423933/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35867051 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2809.220476 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Emerging Infectious Diseases is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited. PDM CC-BY Emerg Infect Dis Research Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2809.220476 2022-09-11T00:33:34Z Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 enables early detection and monitoring of the COVID-19 disease burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. We determined proportions of the Omicron and Delta variants across 30 municipalities covering >75% of the province of Alberta (population 4.5 million), Canada, during November 2021–January 2022. Larger cities Calgary and Edmonton exhibited more rapid emergence of Omicron than did smaller and more remote municipalities. Notable exceptions were Banff, a small international resort town, and Fort McMurray, a medium-sized northern community that has many workers who fly in and out regularly. The integrated wastewater signal revealed that the Omicron variant represented close to 100% of SARS-CoV-2 burden by late December, before the peak in newly diagnosed clinical cases throughout Alberta in mid-January. These findings demonstrate that wastewater monitoring offers early and reliable population-level results for establishing the extent and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Text Fort McMurray PubMed Central (PMC) Canada Fort McMurray Emerging Infectious Diseases 28 9 1770 1776 |
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Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 enables early detection and monitoring of the COVID-19 disease burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. We determined proportions of the Omicron and Delta variants across 30 municipalities covering >75% of the province of Alberta (population 4.5 million), Canada, during November 2021–January 2022. Larger cities Calgary and Edmonton exhibited more rapid emergence of Omicron than did smaller and more remote municipalities. Notable exceptions were Banff, a small international resort town, and Fort McMurray, a medium-sized northern community that has many workers who fly in and out regularly. The integrated wastewater signal revealed that the Omicron variant represented close to 100% of SARS-CoV-2 burden by late December, before the peak in newly diagnosed clinical cases throughout Alberta in mid-January. These findings demonstrate that wastewater monitoring offers early and reliable population-level results for establishing the extent and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants. |
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Hubert, Casey R.J. Acosta, Nicole Waddell, Barbara J.M. Hasing, Maria E. Qiu, Yuanyuan Fuzzen, Meghan Harper, Nathanael B.J. Bautista, María A. Gao, Tiejun Papparis, Chloe Van Doorn, Jenn Du, Kristine Xiang, Kevin Chan, Leslie Vivas, Laura Pradhan, Puja McCalder, Janine Low, Kashtin England, Whitney E. Kuzma, Darina Conly, John Ryan, M. Cathryn Achari, Gopal Hu, Jia Cabaj, Jason L. Sikora, Chris Svenson, Larry Zelyas, Nathan Servos, Mark Meddings, Jon Hrudey, Steve E. Frankowski, Kevin Parkins, Michael D. Pang, Xiaoli (Lilly) Lee, Bonita E. |
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Tracking Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Large and Small Communities by Wastewater Monitoring in Alberta, Canada |
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Tracking Emergence and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Large and Small Communities by Wastewater Monitoring in Alberta, Canada |
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