FACSA and the UJI will apply epidemiological criteria in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in waste water



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## FACSA and the UJI will apply epidemiological criteria in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in waste water

07/10/2020 |
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The Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (UJI) has signed a research agreement with the company FACSA, for the joint development of the project "The role of wastewater in the detection of COVID-19: evolution of the pandemic and role in the preventive control of future outbreaks", within the framework of the COVID WATER study financed by the Valencian Agency for Innovation (AVI).

The research includes monitoring in areas affected by the COVID-19 pandemic within Valencia, in order to ascertain the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. In this context, the diagnosis will be carried out from different points of the sewage network and at the entrance to the WWTPs, applying the principles of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE), a recent scientific discipline whose aim is to apply analytical sciences to the analysis of waste water in order to understand human exposure to various chemical compounds or pathogenic agents.

This will make it possible to understand the extent of the problem indirectly, given the increased detection capacity, and to have an early warning system in the future, since preventive epidemiology based on the study of wastewater can be a valuable tool for understanding the evolution of this and future pandemics, as well as for early detection of new outbreaks or reoccurrences of infection in the populations under study.

The work to be carried out by the multidisciplinary team of the UJI will focus on two aspects. The first of these will be to obtain the epidemiological indicators (number of confirmed cases, incidence rates and prevalence) in the populations included in the study, and the second to achieve the correlation of the epidemiological data with those obtained in the quantification of the virus genome in the aforementioned populations, application of the WBE principles, evaluation of the data obtained and possibilities of applying this approach in future studies.

This collaboration is part of the COVID WATER project, financed by the Valencian Agency for Innovation within the framework of the call for projects that involve new capacities in the Valencian innovation system in the fight against COVID-19. In this sense, COVID WATER seeks to improve the Spanish state's preventive capacity in the face of the current epidemic of COVID-19 generated by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as this project will develop an epidemiological map that combines the experimental results obtained by analysis in wastewater, clinical diagnosis data and other indicators of interest such as socio-economic and environmental ones.

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