Publications by authors named "Miguel Oscar Giordano"
Unveiling the silent information of wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 at community and sanitary zone levels: experience in Córdoba City, Argentina.
Gisela Masachessi Gonzalo Manuel Castro María de Los Angeles Marinzalda Ariana Mariela Cachi Paola Sicilia Miguel Oscar Giordano
J Water Health
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on using wastewater monitoring to detect SARS-CoV-2 in communities, particularly from October 2021 to October 2022 in Córdoba.
- Researchers collected 406 weekly wastewater samples and used real-time PCR to identify the virus and variants, enabling the creation of a viral activity flow map.
- The findings suggest that wastewater surveillance is a sensitive early warning system for COVID-19, identifying viral trends and hotspots even before clinical cases are reported, emphasizing its importance for public health responses.
Enteric viruses monitoring in surface waters requires the concentration of viruses before detection assays. The aim of this study was to evaluate different methods in terms of recovery efficiencies of bacteriophage PP7 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, measured by real-time PCR, using it as a viral control process in water analysis. Different nucleic acid extraction methods (silica-guanidinium thiocyanate, a commercial kit (Qiagen Viral RNA Kit) and phenol-chloroform with alcohol precipitation) exhibited very low recovery efficiencies (0.
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