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. 2020 Sep 15;749:142358. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142358

Table 1.

Recent work of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.

Sampling site Sampling time Sample Positive/total samples Concentration range for positive samples (gene copies/L) Availiable online References
Brisbane, Australia 24/02/2020–01/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 2/9 1.9 × 101–1.2 × 102 18/04/2020 (Pub) Ahmed et al. (2020)
Zhejiang, China 19/02/2020–24/02/2020 Untreated wastewater (H) 3/3 / 24/04/2020 (Pub) Wang et al. (2020b)
Treated by preprocessing disinfection (H) 1/1 /
Final effluent (H) 0/1 /
Valencia, Spain 12/03/2020–14/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 35/42 1.4 × 105–3.4 × 105 16/05/2020 (Pub) Randazzo et al. (2020)
Secondary Treated (M) 2/18 <2.5 × 105
Tertiary Treated (M) 0/12 /
Milan and Rome, Italy 03/02/2020–02/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 6/12 / 23/05/2020 (Pub) La Rosa et al. (2020b)
Amersfoort, Tilburg, Utrecht, etc., Netherlands 05/02/2020–25/03/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 20/29 2.6 × 103–2.2 × 106 20/05/2020 (Pub) Medema et al. (2020)
Yamanashi, Japan 17/03/2020–07/05/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 0/5 / 20/06/2020 (Pub) Haramoto et al. (2020)
Secondary Treated (M) 1/5 2.4 × 103
River water 0/3 /
Wuhan, China 26/02/2020–10/03/2020 Influent of septic tank (H) 0/4 / 23/06/2020 (Pub) Zhang et al. (2020)
Effluent of septic tank (H) 7/9 4.7 × 103–1.7 × 104
Louisiana, USA 13/01/2020–08/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 2/7 3.1 × 103–7.5 × 103 30/06/2020 (Pub) Sherchan et al. (2020)
Secondary Treated (M) 0/4 /
Final effluent (M) 0/4 /
Milano, Italy 14/04/2020, 22/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 4/8 / 14/07/2020 (Pub) Rimoldi et al. (2020)
Final effluent (M) 0/4 /
River water 4/6 /
Massachusetts, USA 18/03/2020–25/03/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 10/10 / 07/04/2020 (Pre) Wu et al. (2020)
Paris, France 05/03/2020–23/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) / 5.0 × 104–3.0 × 106 17/04/2020 (Pre) Wurtzer et al. (2020)
Bozeman, USA 23/03/2020–13/05/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 10/12 / 20/04/2020 (Pre) Nemudryi et al. (2020)
Haifa, Shafdan et c, Israel 10/03/2020–21/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 3/17 / 01/05/2020 (Pre) Bar-Or et al. (2020)
Sewer network (H) 7/9
Istanbul, Turkey 21/04/2020, 25/04/2020 Untreated wastewater (M) 5/7 2.9 × 103–1.8 × 104 06/05/2020 (Pre) Kocamemi et al. (2020a)
Istanbul, Turkey 07/05/2020 Primary sludge (M) 2/2 1.3 × 104–2.3 × 104 16/05/2020 (Pre) Kocamemi et al. (2020b)
Waste activated sludge (M) 7/7 1.2 × 104–4.0 × 104

M: municipal wastewater; H: hospital wastewater; Pub: published, Pre: preprint.