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wastewater-based #epidemiology has been widely applied in many countries and regions for monitoring #COVID19 transmission in the population through testing #SARSCoV2 in wastewater. several studies that have collected paired longitudinal respiratory & fecal samples demonstrated prolonged fecal shedding and higher #viralload in feces compared to the paired respiratory samples collected at the same time period .
This suggests that #SARSCoV2 infection of the GI tract persists longer than in the respiratory tract and the GI tract excretes more viruses than the respiratory Tract
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