A community’s sewage holds clues about its COVID-19 burden. Over the course of the pandemic, wastewater surveillance has become an...
PositionProfessor of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
JoinedMay 4, 2022
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Since May 2020 the Carol Wilusz Lab and the Molecular Quantification Core have focused their efforts on developing and deploying a digital PCR-based assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The assay was developed over the summer of 2020 with help from local company, GT Molecular, City of Fort Collins wastewater treatment plants, and CSU Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Susan De Long. The lab now receives over 4L of sewage a week from all over the CSU campus and from wastewater treatment plants up and down the Colorado Front Range.
