A sensitive, simple, and low-cost method for COVID-19 wastewater surveillance at an institutional level
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.01.20238006: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Although there are advantages with using the Moore swab method, the method also has several limitations. First, this method only provides results on the presence or absence of cases so the quantitative assessment work will be …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.01.20238006: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Although there are advantages with using the Moore swab method, the method also has several limitations. First, this method only provides results on the presence or absence of cases so the quantitative assessment work will be limited. Second, each Moore swab sample requires two trips: placing and retrieving a swab while grab sampling only requires one trip. Third, the Moore swab method has not been standardized in terms of sampling frequency, duration of immersion, and swab processing procedure. Lastly, because this study is a prove of concept, consistent positive results were not achieved in few times when there were confirmed cases in the buildings. This might reflect swab sample processing variability, different RNA extraction methods, laboratory protocol changes, and other unknown factors, which may not represent the true situation.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
Results from rtransparent:- Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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