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Correlations between Wastewater Concentrations of Influenza A and Respiratory Syncytial Viruses and Clinical Laboratory Testing and Hospitalization Data, California, USA
Elisabeth Burnor

, Madhura S. Rane, Marisa A.P. Donnelly, Lauren A. White, Cora Hoover, Monica Sun, Caroline Collins, Andrew Abram, Mariah Otstot, Joel Rojas, Cody Berkobien, Seema Jain, Duc J. Vugia, Wayne T.A. Enanoria, Linlin Li, Chad Below, Marlene Wolfe, Alexandria B. Boehm, Tomás M. León, Erin L. Murray, and Alexander T. Yu
Author affiliation: California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (E. Burnor, M.S. Rane, M.A.P. Donnelly, L.A. White, C. Hoover, M. Sun, C. Collins, A. Abram, M. Otstot, J. Rojas, C. Berkobien, S. Jain, D.J. Vugia, T.M. León, E.L. Murray, A.T. Yu); County of Santa Clara Public Health Department, San Jose, California, USA (W.T.A. Enanoria, L. Li); San Mateo County Health, San Mateo, California, USA (C. Below); Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M. Wolfe); Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (A.B. Boehm)
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Figure 4. Time series comparison of RSV wastewater concentrations and percent test positivity from a study of correlations between wastewater concentrations of influenza A and RSV and clinical laboratory testing and hospitalization data, California, USA. Graphs show weekly county RSV percentage test positivity reported by sentinel laboratories (dark pink bars) and county-aggregated population-weighted averages of nonnormalized RSV wastewater concentrations in gene copies per gram from all sampling sewersheds within each county (purple line) for 10 counties: A) Alameda; B) Contra Costa; C) Marin; D) Sacramento; E) Santa Clara; F) Santa Cruz; G) San Francisco; H) San Mateo; I) Sonoma; J) Yolo. RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
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