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Detection of environmental SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a high prevalence setting in Spain

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1 de mayo de 2021

Since March 2020, Spain (along with many other countries) has been severely affected by the ongoing coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the rapid spread of a new virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; SARS-CoV-2). As part of global efforts to improve disease surveillance, we investigated how readily SARS-CoV-2 RNA could be detected in environmental samples collected from an isolated rural community in Spain with a high COVID-19 prevalence (6% of the population of 883 inhabitants). The first diagnosis of COVID-19-compatible symptoms in the village was recorded on March 3, 2020 and the last known active case resolved on June 5, 2020. By May 15, two months after strict movement constraints were imposed ("lockdown") the cumulative number of symptomatic cases had increased to 53. Of those cases, 22 (41%) had been tested and confirmed by RT-PCR. On May 13 and June 5, samples were collected from high-use surfaces and clothes in the homes of 13 confirmed cases, from surfaces in nine public service sites (e.g. supermarket and petrol station), and from the wastewater of the village sewage system. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in 7 of 57 (12%) samples, including three households and three public sites. While there is not yet sufficient evidence to recommend environmental surveillance as a standard approach for COVID-19 epidemiology, environmental surveillance research may contribute to advance knowledge about COVID-19 by further elucidating virus shedding dynamics and environmental contamination, including the potential identification of animal reservoirs




Fernandez de Mera IG., Rodriguez del Rio FJ., de la Fuente J., Perez-Sancho M., Hervas D., Moreno I., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. y Gortazar C.




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Participantes:

Gobierno de Castilla-La ManchaSanidad y Biotecnología (SaBio). Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). Gobierno de Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM).

Oklahoma State UniversityDepartament of Veterinary Pathobiology. Center for Veterinary Health Sciences (CVHS). Oklahoma State University (OSU).

Universidad ComplutenseCentro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET). Universidad Complutense (UCM).

Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIServicio de Inmunología. Centro Nacional de Microbiología (CNM). Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII).

Health Service of the Government of Castilla-La ManchaLocal Medical Service Horcajo de los Montes. Health Service of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM).



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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
FACTOR YEAR Q
4.521 2021

NLMID: 101319538

PMID: 32894654

ISSN: 1865-1674



TÍTULO: Detection of environmental SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a high prevalence setting in Spain


REVISTA: Transbound Emerg Dis


NUMERACIÓN: 68(3):1487-1492


AÑO: 2021


EDITORIAL: Wiley


AUTORES: Fernandez de Mera IG., Rodriguez del Rio FJ., de la Fuente J., Perez-Sancho M., Hervas D., Moreno I., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. and Gortazar C.


3rd
José de Jesús de la Fuente García
4th
Marta Pérez Sancho
6th
Inmaculada Moreno Iruela
7th
Mercedes Domínguez Rodríguez
8th
Lucas Domínguez Rodríguez
Last
Christian Gortazar Schmidt

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13817


CITA ESTA PUBLICACIÓN:

Fernandez de Mera IG., Rodriguez del Rio FJ., de la Fuente J., Perez-Sancho M., Hervas D., Moreno I., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. y Gortazar C. Detection of environmental SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a high prevalence setting in Spain. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 68(3):1487-1492. 2021. (A). ISSN: 1865-1674. DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13817