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The title of the article is deceiving as virus itself was never isolated from wastewater. The authors used RT-PCR to test for the presence of a 150bp segment of
by lidlin 7y ago
The title of the article is deceiving as virus itself was never isolated from wastewater. The authors used RT-PCR to test for the presence of a 150bp segment of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Although the presence of nucleic acid implies that virus is there, infectious virus was not isolated in this study.
- vikramkr 7y agoThat is how you detect and characterize the biota of a water source quickly and efficiently- quantitative pcr or rtpcr to detect viral load levels. What would you expect they do instead?