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Emerging infectious diseasesAug 2024 |
30
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8
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1580-1588
DOI:
10.3201/eid3008.240225

Wastewater Surveillance to Confirm Differences in Influenza A Infection between Michigan, USA, and Ontario, Canada, September 2022-March 2023

Corchis-Scott, Ryland; Beach, Mackenzie; Geng, Qiudi; Podadera, Ana; Corchis-Scott, Owen; Norton, John; Busch, Andrea; Faust, Russell A; McFarlane, Stacey; Withington, Scott; Irwin, Bridget; Aloosh, Mehdi; Ng, Kenneth K S; McKay, R Michael
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Wastewater surveillance is an effective way to track the prevalence of infectious agents within a community and, potentially, the spread of pathogens between jurisdictions. We conducted a retrospective wastewater surveillance study of the 2022-23 influenza season in 2 communities, Detroit, Michigan, USA, and Windsor-Essex, Ontario, Canada, that form North America's largest cross-border conurbation. We observed a positive relationship between influenza-related hospitalizations and the influenza A virus (IAV) wastewater signal in Windsor-Essex (ρ = 0.785; p
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