SARS-CoV-2 变异株在鹿特丹的兴衰:废水和临床监测的比较。
Rise and fall of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Rotterdam: Comparison of wastewater and clinical surveillance.
机构信息
Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
KWR Water Research Institute, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.
出版信息
Sci Total Environ. 2023 May 15;873:162209. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162209. Epub 2023 Feb 14.
Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater (WW) is a promising tool for epidemiological surveillance, correlating not only viral RNA levels with the infection dynamics within the population, but also to viral diversity. However, the complex mixture of viral lineages in WW samples makes tracking of specific variants or lineages circulating in the population a challenging task. We sequenced sewage samples of 9 WW-catchment areas within the city of Rotterdam, used specific signature mutations from individual SARS-CoV-2 lineages to estimate their relative abundances in WW and compared them against those observed in clinical genomic surveillance of infected individuals between September 2020 and December 2021. We showed that especially for dominant lineages, the median of the frequencies of signature mutations coincides with the occurrence of those lineages in Rotterdam's clinical genomic surveillance. This, along with digital droplet RT-PCR targeting signature mutations of specific variants of concern (VOCs), showed that several VOCs emerged, became dominant and were replaced by the next VOC in Rotterdam at different time points during the study. In addition, single nucleotide variant (SNV) analysis provided evidence that spatio-temporal clusters can also be discerned from WW samples. We were able to detect specific SNVs in sewage, including one resulting in the Q183H amino acid change in the Spike gene, that was not captured by clinical genomic surveillance. Our results highlight the potential use of WW samples for genomic surveillance, increasing the set of epidemiological tools to monitor SARS-CoV-2 diversity.
监测废水 (WW) 中的 SARS-CoV-2 是一种有前途的流行病学监测工具,它不仅可以将病毒 RNA 水平与人群中的感染动态相关联,还可以与病毒多样性相关联。然而,WW 样本中复杂的病毒谱系混合物使得跟踪人群中循环的特定变体或谱系成为一项具有挑战性的任务。我们对鹿特丹市 9 个 WW 集水区的污水样本进行了测序,使用来自个别 SARS-CoV-2 谱系的特定特征突变来估计它们在 WW 中的相对丰度,并将其与 2020 年 9 月至 2021 年 12 月期间感染个体的临床基因组监测中观察到的情况进行了比较。我们表明,特别是对于主要谱系,特征突变频率的中位数与这些谱系在鹿特丹临床基因组监测中的出现相吻合。这一点,加上针对特定关注变体 (VOC) 的特征突变的数字液滴 RT-PCR,表明在研究期间的不同时间点,几个 VOC 在鹿特丹出现、成为优势并被下一个 VOC 取代。此外,单核苷酸变异 (SNV) 分析提供了证据,表明也可以从 WW 样本中辨别时空聚类。我们能够在污水中检测到特定的 SNV,包括一个导致 Spike 基因中 Q183H 氨基酸变化的 SNV,而这一点没有被临床基因组监测捕捉到。我们的结果强调了 WW 样本在基因组监测中的潜在用途,增加了监测 SARS-CoV-2 多样性的流行病学工具集。