Episode Details

Laurie Garrett discusses the role of wastewater testing in public health and her idea of a device that could be used by anyone to analyze water samples.

This podcast is not an episode of TWiV, but I thought it would be of interest to listeners.

Laurie Garrett and Vincent Racaniello

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• Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us)
• Coliform testing of water in Florida (YouTube)
• Declining cost of genome sequencing (Illumina)
• National wastewater surveillance system (CDC)
• Advances in detection of viruses in wastewater (Med Express)
• Wastewater monitoring comes of age (Nature)
• Monitoring monkeypox virus in wastewater (Med Express)
• Poliovirus wastewater surveillance in NY (Dept of Health)
• Wastewater surveillance in NYS (Dept of Health)
• Estimating norovirus infections through wastewater (Water Res)
• Estimating antimicrobial resistant bacteria through latrine water (Antimicro Res Inf Control)

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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