Mariana Matus, co-founder of Biobot Analytics, outlines the biological scope of pathogens that can be detected through sewage testing.
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“It is possible to look at influenza, RSV, other respiratory viruses, to look at gastrointestinal diseases like norovirus, to look at sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea or chlamydia, to look at blood-borne pathogens like hepatitis C.”
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