Population
487 sewage swabs from a local sewage treatment works and clinical isolates from patients in England and Wales
Design
Other
Follow-up
3 years
Authors
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May inform community enterovirus surveillance; leaves open routine adoption without prospective validation.
Sewage monitoring can serve as an effective indicator for the presence and seasonal variation of enteroviruses, adenoviruses, and reoviruses in the community.
Sellwood et al. (1981) studied this question.
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