The title of the article is deceiving as virus itself was never isolated from wastewater. The authors used RT-PCR to test for the presence of a 150bp segment of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Although the presence of nucleic…
The EC50s in the paper are in the millimolar. These are physiologically irrelevant concentrations.
> 80% of antibiotics used in the US are given to farm animals These antibiotics are not the same ones used to treat human infections, and the correlation between the rise in antibiotic resistant infections and…
No, influenza is a virus and is unaffected by antibiotics. OP is misinformed.
The title of the article is deceiving as virus itself was never isolated from wastewater. The authors used RT-PCR to test for the presence of a 150bp segment of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Although the presence of nucleic…
The EC50s in the paper are in the millimolar. These are physiologically irrelevant concentrations.
> 80% of antibiotics used in the US are given to farm animals These antibiotics are not the same ones used to treat human infections, and the correlation between the rise in antibiotic resistant infections and…
No, influenza is a virus and is unaffected by antibiotics. OP is misinformed.