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FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ GT Molecular, a leader in wastewater-based epidemiological testing, has reported the detection of mutational profiles of the South African, Brazilian/Japanese, and UK variants in several wastewater treatment plants around the United States. This is an additional piece of evidence that these variants of concern are spreading in the United States.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo., Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ GT Molecular, a leader in wastewater-based epidemiological testing, has reported the detection of hyper-transmissible SARS-CoV-2 from the B.1.1.7 lineage in three wastewater treatment plants in the United States. This is an additional piece of evidence that the UK variant or a UK variant-like strain is spreading in the United States. GT Molecular detected the strain using its highly sensitive digital PCR test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This test is available
immediately both as a fee-for-service and as a complete, ready-to-use PCR kit for testing labs. Molecular biologists from around the world have come together to advance wastewater-based epidemiological approaches over the last year. This is an excellent demonstration of the power of these approaches, wherein an entire community can be tested for the presence of a variant in a single sample in a matter of hours, says, Dr. Rose Nash, Direc
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