Skip to main content
PMC home page
Elsevier - PMC COVID-19 Collection logoLink to Elsevier - PMC COVID-19 Collection
letter
. 2021 Oct 1;34(9):729–733. doi: 10.3967/bes2021.101

A Longitudinal Survey for Genome-based Identification of SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage Water in Selected Lockdown Areas of Lahore City, Pakistan: A Potential Approach for Future Smart Lockdown Strategy

Tahir Yaqub a,#, Muhammad Nawaz a, Muhammad Z Shabbir a, Muhammad A Ali a, Imran Altai a, Sohail Raza a, Muhammad AB Shabbir a, Muhammad A Ashraf a, Syed Z Aziz b, Sohail Q Cheema b, Muhammad B Shah b, Saira Rafique a, Sohail Hassan a, Nageen Sardar a, Adnan Mehmood a, Muhammad W Aziz a, Sehar Fazal a, Nadir Hussain a, Muhammad T Khan a, Muhammad M Atique a, Ali Asif a, Muhammad Anwar a, Nabeel A Awan c, Muhammad U Younis d, Muhammad A Bhattee d, Zarfishan Tahir e, Nadia Mukhtar a,e, Huda Sarwar e, Maaz S Rana e, Omair Farooq f
PMCID: PMC8485421  PMID: 34530963

The content is available as a PDF (1.1 MB).

Biography

Biographical note of the first author: Prof. Dr. Tahir Yaqub, male, PhD, born in 1963, Professor of Microbiology, majoring in emerging infectious diseases.

Footnotes

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

REFERENCES

  • 1.Worldometer Coronavirus Cases. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [2021-03-01].
  • 2.Backer JA, Klinkenberg D, Wallinga J. Incubation period of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections among travellers from Wuhan, China. Euro Surveill. 2020;25:2000062. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.5.2000062. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 3.Matsuura K, Ishikura M, Yoshida H. Assessment of poliovirus eradication in Japan: genomic analysis of polioviruses isolated from river water and sewage in Toyama Prefecture. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2020;66:5087–5091. doi: 10.1128/aem.66.11.5087-5091.2000. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 4.World PopulationLahore Population 2020. http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/lahore-population [2020-03-01].
  • 5.Lim KL, Johari NA, Wong ST. A novel strategy for community screening of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): Sample pooling method. PLoS One. 2020;15:e0238417. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238417. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 6.Böttiger M, Herrström E. Isolation of polioviruses from sewage and their characteristics: experience over two decades in Sweden. Scand J Infect Dis. 1992;24:151–155. doi: 10.3109/00365549209052605. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 7.Carter LJ, Garner LV, Smoot JW. Assay techniques and test development for COVID-19 diagnosis. ACS Cent Sci. 2020:591–605. doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00501. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 8.Shen LH, Huang F, Chen F. Diagnostic efficacy of three test kits for SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid detection. J Zhejiang Univ Med Sci. 2020:185–190. doi: 10.3785/j.issn.1008-9292.2020.03.09. (In Chinese) [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 9.Coutu S, Wyrsch V, Wynn HK. Temporal dynamics of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plant influent. Sci Total Environ. 2013:20–26. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.04.017. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 10.Cai JH, Xu J, Lin DJ. A case series of children with 2019 novel coronavirus infection: clinical and epidemiological features. Clin Infect Dis. 2020:1547–1645. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa198. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Supplementary Data

Supporting materials
mmc1.pdf (273.9KB, pdf)

Associated Data

This section collects any data citations, data availability statements, or supplementary materials included in this article.

Supplementary Materials

Supporting materials
mmc1.pdf (273.9KB, pdf)

Articles from Biomedical and Environmental Sciences are provided here courtesy of Elsevier

RESOURCES