Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring
Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 allows for early detection and monitoring of COVID-19 burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. Targeted assays enabled relative proportions of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants to be determined across 30 municipalities covering >75%...
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ftunivwaterloo:oai:uwspace.uwaterloo.ca:10012/18384 2023-05-15T16:17:38+02:00 Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring Hubert, Casey R. J. Acosta, Nicole Waddell, Barbara J. Hasing, Maria E. Qiu, Yuanyuan Fuzzen, Meghan Harper, Nathanael B. J. Bautista, María A. Gao, Tiejun Papparis, Chloe Doorn, Jean V. 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. R. Meddings, Jon Hrudey, Steve E. Frankowski, Kevin Parkins, Michael D. Pang, Xiaoli Lee, Bonita E. 2022-10-03 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18384 https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.07.22272055 en eng medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.07.22272055 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18384 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant wastewater monitoring Preprint 2022 ftunivwaterloo https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.07.22272055 2022-06-18T23:03:49Z Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 allows for early detection and monitoring of COVID-19 burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. Targeted assays enabled relative proportions of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants to be determined across 30 municipalities covering >75% of the province of Alberta (pop. 4.5M) in Canada, from November 2021 to January 2022. Larger cities like Calgary and Edmonton exhibited a more rapid emergence of Omicron relative to smaller and more remote municipalities. Notable exceptions were Banff, a small international resort town, and Fort McMurray, a more remote northern city with a large fly-in worker population. The integrated wastewater signal revealed that the Omicron variant represented close to 100% of SARS-CoV-2 burden prior to the observed increase in newly diagnosed clinical cases throughout Alberta, which peaked two weeks later. These findings demonstrate that wastewater monitoring offers early and reliable population-level results for establishing the extent and spread of emerging pathogens including SARS-CoV-2 variants. Alberta Health Report Fort McMurray University of Waterloo, Canada: Institutional Repository Canada Fort McMurray |
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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant wastewater monitoring Hubert, Casey R. J. Acosta, Nicole Waddell, Barbara J. Hasing, Maria E. Qiu, Yuanyuan Fuzzen, Meghan Harper, Nathanael B. J. Bautista, María A. Gao, Tiejun Papparis, Chloe Doorn, Jean V. 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. R. Meddings, Jon Hrudey, Steve E. Frankowski, Kevin Parkins, Michael D. Pang, Xiaoli Lee, Bonita E. Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring |
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Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 allows for early detection and monitoring of COVID-19 burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. Targeted assays enabled relative proportions of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron and Delta variants to be determined across 30 municipalities covering >75% of the province of Alberta (pop. 4.5M) in Canada, from November 2021 to January 2022. Larger cities like Calgary and Edmonton exhibited a more rapid emergence of Omicron relative to smaller and more remote municipalities. Notable exceptions were Banff, a small international resort town, and Fort McMurray, a more remote northern city with a large fly-in worker population. The integrated wastewater signal revealed that the Omicron variant represented close to 100% of SARS-CoV-2 burden prior to the observed increase in newly diagnosed clinical cases throughout Alberta, which peaked two weeks later. These findings demonstrate that wastewater monitoring offers early and reliable population-level results for establishing the extent and spread of emerging pathogens including SARS-CoV-2 variants. Alberta Health |
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Hubert, Casey R. J. Acosta, Nicole Waddell, Barbara J. Hasing, Maria E. Qiu, Yuanyuan Fuzzen, Meghan Harper, Nathanael B. J. Bautista, María A. Gao, Tiejun Papparis, Chloe Doorn, Jean V. 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. R. Meddings, Jon Hrudey, Steve E. Frankowski, Kevin Parkins, Michael D. Pang, Xiaoli Lee, Bonita E. |
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Hubert, Casey R. J. Acosta, Nicole Waddell, Barbara J. Hasing, Maria E. Qiu, Yuanyuan Fuzzen, Meghan Harper, Nathanael B. J. Bautista, María A. Gao, Tiejun Papparis, Chloe Doorn, Jean V. 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. R. Meddings, Jon Hrudey, Steve E. Frankowski, Kevin Parkins, Michael D. Pang, Xiaoli Lee, Bonita E. |
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Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring |
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Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring |
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Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring |
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Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring |
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Emergence and Spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Alberta Communities Revealed by Wastewater Monitoring |
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emergence and spread of the sars-cov-2 omicron variant in alberta communities revealed by wastewater monitoring |
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