Sébastien Wurtzer

Dr. Sébastien Wurtzer

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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 June 2015 in Environment International
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BPB. Prevost
B. Prevost
FLF.S. Lucas
F.S. Lucas
AGA. Goncalves
A. Goncalves
FRF. Richard
F. Richard
LML. Moulin
L. Moulin
SWSébastien Wurtzer
Sébastien Wurtzer

17 April 2020 in medRxiv
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SWSébastien Wurtzer
Sébastien Wurtzer
VMVincent Marechal
Vincent Marechal
JMJean-Marie Mouchel
Jean-Marie Mouchel
YMY Maday
Y Maday
RTR Teyssou
R Teyssou
LMLaurent Moulin
Laurent Moulin
Summary: SARS-CoV-2 is the etiological agent of COVID-19. Most of SARS-CoV-2 carriers are assumed to exhibit no or mild non-specific symptoms. Thus, they may contribute to the rapid and mostly silent circulation of the virus among humans. Since SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in stool samples it has recently been proposed to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in wastewaters (WW) as a complementary tool to investigate virus circulation in human populations. In the present work we assumed that the quantification of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in wastewaters should correlate with the number of symptomatic or non-symptomatic carriers. To test this hypothesis, we performed a time-course quantitative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-qPCR in raw wastewater samples collected from several major wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) of the Parisian area. The study was conducted from 5 March to 23 April 2020, therefore including the lockdown period in France (since 17 March 2020). We confirmed that the increase of genome units in raw wastewaters accurately followed the increase of human COVID-19 cases observed at the regional level. Of note, the viral genomes could be detected before the beginning of the exponential growth of the epidemic. As importantly, a marked decrease in the quantities of genomes units was observed concomitantly with the reduction in the number of new COVID-19 cases which was an expected consequence of the lockdown. A s a conclusion, this work suggests that a quantitative monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in wastewaters should bring important and additional information for an improved survey of SARS-CoV-2 circulation at the local or regional scale.

1 June 2021 in Water Research
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SWSébastien Wurtzer
Sébastien Wurtzer
PWP. Waldman
P. Waldman
AFA. Ferrier-Rembert
A. Ferrier-Rembert
GFG. Frenois-Veyrat
G. Frenois-Veyrat
JMJ.M. Mouchel
J.M. Mouchel
LML. Moulin
L. Moulin

20 October 2022 in Environmental Science & Technology Letters
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SWSébastien Wurtzer
Sébastien Wurtzer
MLMorgane Levert
Morgane Levert
EDEloise Dhenain
Eloise Dhenain
MBMickael Boni
Mickael Boni
JTJean Nicolas Tournier
Jean Nicolas Tournier
LMLaurent Moulin
Laurent Moulin

1 December 2014 in Journal of Virological Methods
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SWSébastien Wurtzer
Sébastien Wurtzer
BPBenoit Prevost
Benoit Prevost
FLFrancoise S. Lucas
Francoise S. Lucas
LMLaurent Moulin
Laurent Moulin

30 July 2022 in Science of The Total Environment
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SWSébastien Wurtzer
Sébastien Wurtzer
MLMorgane Levert
Morgane Levert
EDEloïse Dhenain
Eloïse Dhenain
HAHeberte Accrombessi
Heberte Accrombessi
SMSandra Manco
Sandra Manco
LMLaurent Moulin
Laurent Moulin