Ruth E Timme, Jacquelina Woods, Jessica L Jones, Kevin R Calci, Rachel Rodriguez, Candace Barnes, Elizabeth Leard, Mark Craven, Haifeng Chen, Cameron Boerner, Christopher Grim, Amanda M Windsor, Padmini Ramachandran, Tim Muruvanda, Hugh Rand, Bereket Tesfaldet, Jasmine Amirzadegan, Tunc Kayikcioglu, Tamara Walsky, Marc Allard, Maria Balkey, C Hope Bias, Eric Brown, Kathryn Judy, Tina Pfefer, Sandra M Tallent, Maria Hoffmann, James Pettengill
UNLABELLED: Wastewater surveillance has emerged as a crucial public health tool for population-level pathogen surveillance. Supported by funding from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the FDA's genomic epidemiology program, GenomeTrakr, was leveraged to sequence SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater sites across the United States. This initiative required the evaluation, optimization, development, and publication of new methods and analytical tools spanning sample collection through variant analyses...
May 31, 2024: MSystems