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Swabbing the Urban Environment – A Pipeline for Sampling and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs
JoVE Journal
Biology
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Swabbing the Urban Environment – A Pipeline for Sampling and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs
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07:13 min

April 09, 2021

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Chapters

  • 00:05Introduction
  • 00:53Sampling the Urban Environment
  • 03:19SARS-CoV-2 Detection
  • 05:18Results: Sampling and DetecRon of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs
  • 06:37Conclusion

Summary

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A citizen science project was designed to recruit San Diego residents to collect environmental samples for SARS-CoV-2. A multilingual web-based platform was created for data submission using a user-friendly mobile device interface. A laboratory information management system facilitated the collection of thousands of geographically diverse samples with real-time outcome tracking.

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