Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "D'Aoust, Patrick M."
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Near real-time determination of B.1.1.7 in proportion to total SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater using an allele-specific primer extension PCR strategy
Graber, Tyson E.; Mercier, Élisabeth; Bhatnagar, Kamya; Fuzzen, Meghan; D'Aoust, Patrick M.; Hoang, Huy-Dung; Tian, Xin; Towhid, Syeda Tasneem; Plaza-Diaz, Julio; Eid, Walaa; Alain, Tommy; Butler, Ainslie; Goodridge, Lawrence; Servos, Mark. R.; Delatolla, Robert (Elsevier, 2021-10-15)"The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona- virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has claimed millions of lives to date. Antigenic drift has resulted in viral variants ... -
Wastewater to clinical case (WC) ratio of COVID-19 identifies insufficient clinical testing, onset of new variants of concern and population immunity in urban communities
D'Aoust, Patrick M.; Tian, Xin; Towhid, Syeda Tasneem; Xiao, Amy; Mercier, Elisabeth; Hegazy, Nada; Jia, Jian-Jun; Wan, Shen; Kabir, Md Pervez; Fang, Wanting; Fuzzen, Meghan; Hasing, Maria; Yang, Minqing Ivy; Sun, Jianxian; Plaza-Diaz, Julio; Zhang, Zhihao; Cowan, Aaron; Eid, Walaa; Stephenson, Sean; Servos, Mark. R.; Wade, Matthew J.; MacKenzie, Alex E.; Peng, Hui; Edwards, Elizabeth A.; Alm, Eric J.; Graber, Tyson E.; Delatolla, Robert (medRxiv, 2022-04-20)Clinical testing has been the cornerstone of public health monitoring and infection control efforts in communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. With the extant and anticipated reduction of clinical testing as the ...