Wastewater based epidemiology as a surveillance tool during the current COVID-19 pandemic on a college campus (East Carolina University) and its accuracy in predicting SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in dormitories

• Avian White ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: whiteav15@ecu.edu

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences Program, Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7499-068X

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• Guy Iverson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences Program, Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• LaNika Wright,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Executive Director Student Health Services, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America, Associate Vice Chancellor of Health and Wellbeing, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• John T. Fallon III,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7677-4868

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• Kimberly P. Briley,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Changhong Yin,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Weihua Huang,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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• Charles Humphrey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health Sciences Program, Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America

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