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Swabbing the Urban Environment – A Pipeline for Sampling and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs
JoVE 杂志
生物学
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Swabbing the Urban Environment – A Pipeline for Sampling and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs

Swabbing the Urban Environment – A Pipeline for Sampling and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs

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April 09, 2021

DOI:

10.3791/62379-v

DOI:
10.3791/62379-v

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07:13 min
April 09, 2021

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1Department of Biology,San Diego State University, 2Viral Information Institute,San Diego State University, 3Big Rose Web Design, LLC

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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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Rojas, M. I., Giles, S. S., Little, M., Baron, R., Livingston, I., Dagenais, T. R. T., Baer, J., Cobián-Güemes, A. G., White, B., Rohwer, F. Swabbing the Urban Environment - A Pipeline for Sampling and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 From Environmental Reservoirs. J. Vis. Exp. (170), e62379, doi:10.3791/62379 (2021).

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