2024
Yes
From Entry to Outbreak in a High School Setting: Clinical and Wastewater Surveillance of a Rare SARS-CoV-2 Variant
https://doi.org/10.3390/v17040477
Sachse, Sven
Europe
Observational
Experimental
Students
Staff
Elementary (K-5)
Middle/Jr High (6-8)
High School (9-12)
Viruses
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
Outbreak investigation
Wastewater
Researchers used wastewater and sequencing to detect SARS-CoV-2 B.1.640.2 before diagnosis in a German high school outbreak. Contact tracing confirmed spread across institutions, highlighting wastewater’s value for early variant detection.
2025