Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in schools using built environment testing in Ottawa, Canada: A multi-facility prospective surveillance study

• Nisha Thampi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nthampi@cheo.on.ca

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-6277

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• Tasha Burhunduli,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Jamie Strain,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Ashley Raudanskis,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jason A. Moggridge,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-5868

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• Aaron Hinz,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Evgueni Doukhanine,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation DNA Genotek Incorporated, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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• Lucas Castellani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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• Rees Kassen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Janine McCready,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Michael Garron Hospital, Toronto East Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Caroline Nott,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Alex Wong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, Texas A&M AgriLife, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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• Michael Fralick ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Fralick, Derek R. MacFadden

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2082-2445

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• Derek R. MacFadden

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Fralick, Derek R. MacFadden

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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