Environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for COVID-19 outbreak detection in hospital: a single-centre prospective study

Infect Prev Pract. 2024 Mar 5;6(2):100353. doi: 10.1016/j.infpip.2024.100353. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Prachi Ray¹, Bryant Lim², Katarina Zorcic¹, Jennie Johnstone^{3

4}, Aaron Hinz^{5

6}, Alexandra M A Hicks^{5

6}, Alex Wong^{6

7}, Derek R MacFadden^{8

9}, Caroline Nott^{8

9}, Lucas Castellani^{10

11}, Rees Kassen⁵, Michael Fralick^{1

2}

¹ Department of Medicine, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Infection Prevention and Control, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵ Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁷ Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
⁸ The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ Division of Clinical Sciences, NOSM University, Sudbury, ON, Canada.
¹¹ Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada.

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