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American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 1(11), 2023
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03177-22
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Rapid Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Variant-Associated Mutations in Wastewater Using Real-Time RT-PCR
Journal article published in 2023 by
Kata Farkas 
,
Cameron Pellett,
Rachel Williams,
Natasha Alex-Sanders,
Irene Bassano,
Mathew R. Brown,
Hubert Denise ,
Jasmine M. S. Grimsley,
Jessica L. Kevill,
Mohammad S. Khalifa,
Igor Pântea,
Rich Story,
Matthew J. Wade,
Nick Woodhall,
Davey L. Jones
,
Cameron Pellett,
Rachel Williams,
Natasha Alex-Sanders,
Irene Bassano,
Mathew R. Brown,
Hubert Denise ,
Jasmine M. S. Grimsley,
Jessica L. Kevill,
Mohammad S. Khalifa,
Igor Pântea,
Rich Story,
Matthew J. Wade,
Nick Woodhall,
Davey L. Jones
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract
With the global spread of COVID-19, it is essential to identify emerging variants which may be more harmful or able to escape vaccines rapidly. To date, the gold standard to assess variants circulating in communities has been the sequencing of the S gene or the whole genome of SARS-CoV-2; however, that approach is time-consuming and expensive.