Presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Afaf Merza MohamedEbrahim MatarHasan M IsaAhmed K MoosaWafa Fawzi HasanAmjad Ghanem MohamedAdel Salman Al SayyadMaryam Y SanadMaryam AlhajeriNajat Abu AlfatahQasim M Alaraibi

Published in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2023)

The detection rate of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples from Bahrain was high and was significantly correlated with the number of reported COVID-19 cases. Wastewater surveillance can aid the existing surveillance system in monitoring SARS-CoV-2 spread.

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sensitive detection