Leachate comprises a solid waste decomposition product found fresh in collection trucks or as an effluent in landfills. This study aimed to assess the occurrence, concentrations, and genetic diversity of intact rotavirus species A (RVA) in solid waste leachate.Leachate samples were concentrated by ultracentrifugation, treated with propidium monoazide (PMA), and exposed to LED photolysis. Treated and untread samples were extracted using the QIAamp Fast DNA Stool mini kit, and nucleic acids were screened for RVA employing a Taqman® Real-time PCR. The PMA RT-qPCR method detected RVA in eight out of nine truck samples and in 15.40% (2/13) of the landfill leachate samples. The RVA concentrations in the PMA-treated samples ranged from 4.57 × 103 to 2.15 × 107 genomic copies (GC) 100 mL-1 in truck leachate and from 7.83 × 103 to 1.42 × 104 GC 100 mL-1 in landfill samples. Six truck leachate samples were characterized as RVA VP6 genogroup I2 by partial nucleotide sequencing.The high intact RVA detection rates and concentrations in truck leachate samples indicate potential infectivity and comprise a warning for solid waste collectors concerning hand-to-mouth contact and the splash route.
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COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, presents itself as a challenging for this vulnerable population, with adverse
health impacts and daily adversities, which can be avoided through a more inclusive community planning. Most of these
disabled people will recognize the world through touch, using their hands to read, move around and identify the world.
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approximately 2.2 million people worldwide, of whom more than two thirds live in low- or middle-income countries.
COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, presents itself as a challenging for this vulnerable population, with adverse
health impacts and daily adversities, which can be avoided through a more inclusive community planning. Most of these
disabled people will recognize the world through touch, using their hands to read, move around and identify the world.
In addition to this scenario, the fact that an important portion of those individuals has multiple deficiencies, often alsoVisual impairment, which includes the blind and those with low vision, is one of the main reported disabilities, affecting
approximately 2.2 million people worldwide, of whom more than two thirds live in low- or middle-income countries.
COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, presents itself as a challenging for this vulnerable population, with adverse
health impacts and daily adversities, which can be avoided through a more inclusive community planning. Most of these
disabled people will recognize the world through touch, using their hands to read, move around and identify the world.
In addition to this scenario, the fact that an important portion of those individuals has multiple deficiencies, often also associated with pre-existing comorbidities, with emphasis on diabetes mellitus, one of the main causes of blindness in
adults. The current pandemic represents not only a challenge to seek blind and low vision people, but an opportunity for
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