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Wasterwater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in India

Video discussing how wastewater can be used to monitor infectious diseases

In this video, Dr Farah Ishtiaq from the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India shares her experience using wastewater sampling to investigate the diversity and distribution of pathogens which have relevance to public health.

If you are interested in learning more from her research, you can also watch this TEDx talk.

This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube.

Further reading

India must scale up wastewater analysis for health surveillance SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics and genomic surveillance to detect variants in wastewater – a longitudinal study in Bengaluru, India

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