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  "textContent": "New research led by University of South Carolina environmental health sciences assistant professor Laura Langan has provided further support for the effectiveness of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). Langan and her team have compared two of the most common approaches to WBE for monitoring the spread of an active measles outbreak in Texas: reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (more widely available) and RT digital PCR.",
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