About the Authors

Rhonda J. Rosychuk

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rhonda.rosychuk@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Science, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bonita E. Lee

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Judy Y. Qiu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women and Children’s Health Research Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Alberta Precision Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Tiejun Gao

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Michael D. Parkins

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Casey R. J. Hubert

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Xiaoli Pang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.