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SARS-CoV-2 in human sewage in Santa Catalina, Brazil, November 2019 (preprint)
medrxiv; 2020.
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| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2020.06.26.20140731
ABSTRACT
We analysed human sewage located in Florianopolis (Santa Catalina, Brazil) from late October until the Brazil lockdown on early March. We detected SARS-CoV-2 in two samples collected independently on 27th November 2019 (5.49{+/-}0.02 log genome copies/L). Subsequent samplings were positive until 4th March 2020 (coinciding with the first COVID-19 case reported in Santa Catalina), with a SARS-CoV-2 RNA increase of one log (6.68{+/-}0.02 log genome copies/L). Our results show that SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in Brazil since late November 2019, much earlier than the first reported case in the Americas (21st January 2020, USA).
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COVID-19
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2020
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