A method for campus-wide SARS-CoV-2 surveillance at a large public university

Terren Chang; Jolene M. Draper; Anouk Van den Bout; Ellen Kephart; Hannah Maul-Newby; Yvonne Vasquez; Jason Woodbury; Savanna Randi; Martina Pedersen; Maeve Nave; Scott La; Natalie Gallagher; Molly M. McCabe; Namrita Dhillon; Isabel Bjork; Michael Luttrell; Frank Dang; John B. MacMillan; Ralph Green; Elizabeth Miller; Auston M. Kilpatrick; Olena Vaske; Michael D. Stone; Jeremy R. Sanford

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261230

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A method for campus-wide SARS-CoV-2 surveillance at a large public university

Terren Chang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terren Chang, Jolene M. Draper, Anouk Van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Hannah Maul-Newby, Yvonne Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Jolene M. Draper ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terren Chang, Jolene M. Draper, Anouk Van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Hannah Maul-Newby, Yvonne Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Anouk Van den Bout ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terren Chang, Jolene M. Draper, Anouk Van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Hannah Maul-Newby, Yvonne Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Ellen Kephart ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terren Chang, Jolene M. Draper, Anouk Van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Hannah Maul-Newby, Yvonne Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3117-4439

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Hannah Maul-Newby ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terren Chang, Jolene M. Draper, Anouk Van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Hannah Maul-Newby, Yvonne Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Yvonne Vasquez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terren Chang, Jolene M. Draper, Anouk Van den Bout, Ellen Kephart, Hannah Maul-Newby, Yvonne Vasquez

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6113-5222

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Jason Woodbury,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Thirdwave Analytics, San Francisco, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4391-7276

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Savanna Randi,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Martina Pedersen,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Maeve Nave,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Scott La,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Natalie Gallagher,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Molly M. McCabe,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Namrita Dhillon,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Isabel Bjork,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Michael Luttrell,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Business and Accounting Services, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Frank Dang,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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John B. MacMillan,

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Ralph Green,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9935-230X

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Elizabeth Miller,

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Student Health Services, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Auston M. Kilpatrick,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Olena Vaske,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1677-417X

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Michael D. Stone ,

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

* E-mail: jsanfor2@ucsc.edu (JRS); MDS@ucsc.edu (MDS)

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Jeremy R. Sanford

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: jsanfor2@ucsc.edu (JRS); MDS@ucsc.edu (MDS)

Affiliations Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Center for Molecular Biology of RNA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1131-1627

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A method for campus-wide SARS-CoV-2 surveillance at a large public university

Terren Chang,
Jolene M. Draper,
Anouk Van den Bout,
Ellen Kephart,
Hannah Maul-Newby,
Yvonne Vasquez,
Jason Woodbury,
Savanna Randi,
Martina Pedersen,
Maeve Nave

Published: December 17, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261230

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