Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 using wastewater-based epidemiology

Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 using wastewater-based epidemiology

“When the pandemic hit, and we heard about wastewater monitoring efforts, we immediately thought of the wastewater collection in our lab that we were using to hunt for phages—viruses that infect bacteria and could be used as alternatives to antibiotics,” said Katrine Whiteson, Ph.D., [UCI] associate professor of molecular biology & biochemistry and co-corresponding author. “I am proud of the team of students mobilized by Jason Rothman in our lab to process and concentrate the wastewater to search for viruses.”