Dr. Dagmara Antkiewicz (2nd from right) with the WSLH Wastewater-Based Epidemiology team and WSLH Environmental Toxicology, gave an update on the WSLH’s use of wastewater surveillance for COVID and other respiratory diseases at the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) ID Lab Con.
Dr. Antkiewicz spoke about the technical challenges of wastewater surveillance testing, as well as highlighted the WSLH’s use of genomic sequencing as part of our work. Her fellow panel presenters from Virginia, Utah, New York and the District of Columbia spoke on other aspects of using wastewater as a surveillance tool.