Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "Delatolla, Robert"
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Community Surveillance of Omicron in Ontario: Wastewater-based Epidemiology Comes of Age
Arts, Eric; Brown, Stephen; Bulir, David; Charles, Trevor C.; DeGroot, Christopher T.; Delatolla, Robert; Desaulniers, Jean-Paul; Edwards, Elizabeth A.; Fuzzen, Meghan; Gilbride, Kimberly; Gilchrist, Jodi; Goodridge, Lawrence; Graber, Tyson E.; Habash, Marc; Jüni, Peter; Kirkwood, Andrea; Knockleby, James; Kyle, Christopher; Landgraff, Chrystal; Mangat, Chand; Manuel, Douglas G.; McKay, R. Michael; Mejia, Edgard; Mloszewska, Aleksandra; Ormeci, Banu; Oswald, Claire; Payne, Sarah Jane; Peng, Hui; Peterson, Shelley; Poon, Art F. Y.; Servos, Mark. R.; Simmons, Denina; Sun, Jianxian; Yang, Minqing; Ybazeta, Gustavo (Research Square, 2022-03-15)Wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA has been implemented at building, neighbourhood, and city levels throughout the world. Implementation strategies and analysis methods differ, but they all aim to provide rapid ... -
Multiplex RT-qPCR assay (N200) to detect and estimate prevalence of multiple SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern in wastewater
Fuzzen, Meghan; Harper, Nathanael B. J.; Dhiyebi, Hadi; Srikanthan, Nivetha; Hayat, Samina; Peterson, Shelley; Yang, Ivy; Sun, Jianxian; Edwards, Elizabeth A.; Giesy, John P.; Mangat, Chand S.; Graber, Tyson E.; Delatolla, Robert; Servos, Mark. R. (medRxiv, 2022-04-13)Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has become an effective tool around the globe for indirect monitoring of COVID-19 in communities. Quantities of viral fragments of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater are related to numbers of ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Wastewater Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance
Manuel, Douglas G.; Delatolla, Robert; Fisman, David; Fuzzen, Meghan; Graber, Tyson E.; Katz, Gabrielle M.; Kim, JinHee; Landgraff, Chrystal; MacKenzie, Alex; Maltsev, Antonina; Majury, Anna; McKay, R. Michael; Minnery, John; Servos, Mark. R.; Weese, J. Scott; McGeer, Allison; Born, Karen B.; Barrett, Kali; Schwartz, Brian; Jüni, Peter (Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, 2021-08-26)Wastewater testing for SARS-CoV-2 is relatively new; however, it builds on existing public health surveillance infrastructure. There is a limited but growing evidence base for its use, despite notable interpretation ... -
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 ...