Population-based screening in a municipality after a primary school outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant, the Netherlands, December 2020–February 2021

• Janko van Beek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janko van Beek, Gwen Teesing

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.h.g.vanbeek@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7463-9411

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• Gwen Teesing ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janko van Beek, Gwen Teesing

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), The Hague, The Netherlands

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• Bas B. Oude Munnink,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Abraham Meima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Henrike J. Vriend,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Jessica Elzakkers,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Miranda de Graaf,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Jeroen Langeveld,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations KWR Water Research Institute, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, Partners4UrbanWater, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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• Gert-Jan Medema,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations KWR Water Research Institute, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, Sanitary Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Richard Molenkamp,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Helene Voeten,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Ewout Fanoy ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EF and MK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Marion Koopmans ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EF and MK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Outbreak investigation and national genomic surveillance teams

  ¶Members of the outbreak investigation and national genomic surveillance teams are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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