Can a Paper-Based Device Trace COVID-19 Sources with Wastewater-Based Epidemiology?

Kang Mao¹, Hua Zhang^{1

2}, Zhugen Yang³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550081, China.
² CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi'an 710061, Shanxi Province China.
³ School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom.

Comment

Kang Mao et al. Environ Sci Technol. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 7;54(7):3733-3735.

doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01174. Epub 2020 Mar 23.

Kang Mao¹, Hua Zhang^{1

2}, Zhugen Yang³

¹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550081, China.
² CAS Center for Excellence in Quaternary Science and Global Change, Xi'an 710061, Shanxi Province China.
³ School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom.

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