id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-283895-1p5uog38 Trottier, J. Post-lockdown detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the wastewater of Montpellier, France 2020-07-09 .txt text/plain 1925 125 61 Indeed, several reports indicate that SARS-CoV-2 RNA was readily detected in wastewater, and it is proposed that such approach could anticipate the occurrence of novel COVID-19 outbreaks in low prevalence regions , La Rosa et al., 2020 , Medema et al., 2020 , Orive et al., 2020 , Randazzo et al., 2020 . First, we showed that the Ebola standard (Ebo Std) primer/probe set was not detecting RNA from SARS-CoV-2-infected Vero E6 cells (Table 1) . . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.08.20148882 doi: medRxiv preprint Next, we measured the SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels using N1 and N3 primer/probe sets in wastewater collected upstream of the main WWTP of the Montpellier metropolitan area on May 7 th , 18 th , 26 th , June 4 th , 15 th and 25 th (Figure 2A ). This intriguing result is reminiscent of a recent Spanish study, in which the authors could detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater weeks before the first COVID-19 cases were reported (Randazzo et al., 2020) . ./cache/cord-283895-1p5uog38.txt ./txt/cord-283895-1p5uog38.txt