The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

Wastewater-based surveillance as a tool for public health action: SARS-CoV-2 and beyond

MD Parkins, BE Lee, N Acosta, M Bautista… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has undergone dramatic advancement in the context
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The power and potential of this …

Real-world COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against the Omicron BA. 2 variant in a SARS-CoV-2 infection-naive population

JJ Lau, SMS Cheng, K Leung, CK Lee, A Hachim… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has demonstrated enhanced transmissibility and
escape of vaccine-derived immunity. Although first-generation vaccines remain effective …

Wastewater sequencing reveals early cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission

S Karthikeyan, JI Levy, P De Hoff, G Humphrey… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
As SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread and evolve, detecting emerging variants early is critical
for public health interventions. Inferring lineage prevalence by clinical testing is infeasible at …

Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike

RJ Parsons, P Acharya - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant of
concern, first identified in November 2021, rapidly spread worldwide and diversified into …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of influenza A and respiratory syncytial viruses elucidated by wastewater-based epidemiology

H Ando, W Ahmed, R Iwamoto, Y Ando, S Okabe… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a decrease in the prevalence of Influenza A virus (IAV) and
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been suggested by clinical surveillance. However …

Comparison of metagenomic and targeted methods for sequencing human pathogenic viruses from wastewater

HT Child, G Airey, DM Maloney, A Parker, J Wild… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a powerful tool for monitoring the emergence and
spread of viral pathogens at the population scale. Typical polymerase chain reaction (PCR) …

Early detection of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 BA. 2.86 lineage through integrated genomic surveillance of wastewater and COVID-19 cases in Sweden, weeks 31 to …

C Espinosa-Gongora, C Berg, M Rehn… - …, 2023 - eurosurveillance.org
The SARS-CoV-2 BA. 2.86 Omicron subvariant was first detected in wastewater in Sweden
in week 31 2023, using 21 highly specific markers from the 50 investigated. We report BA …

Tracing COVID-19 trails in wastewater: A systematic review of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance with viral variants

A Tiwari, S Adhikari, S Zhang, TB Solomon, A Lipponen… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 associated with varying infectivity,
pathogenicity, diagnosis, and effectiveness against treatments challenged the overall …

Moving forward with COVID-19: future research prospects of wastewater-based epidemiology methodologies and applications

G Jiang, Y Liu, S Tang, M Kitajima, E Haramoto… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been demonstrated for its great potential in
tracking of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission among populations despite …