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 …

An efficient method to enhance recovery and detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater

T Kumblathan, Y Liu, Y Qiu, L Pang, SE Hrudey… - journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance (WS) of SARS-CoV-2 currently requires multiple steps and suffers
low recoveries and poor sensitivity. Here, we report an improved analytical method with high …

SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Genomic Surveillance: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities

V Munteanu, M Saldana, NK Sharma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, wastewater-based genomic surveillance (WWGS)
emerged as an efficient viral surveillance tool that takes into account asymptomatic cases …

Implementing an adaptive, two-tiered SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance program on a university campus using passive sampling

BR Haskell, HA Dhiyebi, N Srikanthan… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Building-level wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has been increasingly applied
upstream from wastewater treatment plants to conduct targeted monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 …

To sample or not to sample: A governance-focused decision tree for wastewater service providers considering participation in wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) …

R Maal-Bared, K Brisolara, M Knight… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) provides value to public health monitoring and
protection. Participation of public and private wastewater system operators in WBE efforts is …

SARS-CoV-2 viral titer measurements in Ontario, Canada wastewaters throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

PM D'Aoust, N Hegazy, NT Ramsay, MI Yang… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Province of Ontario, Canada, launched a wastewater
surveillance program to monitor SARS-CoV-2, inspired by the early work and successful …

Wastewater Monitoring for Infectious Disease: Intentional Relationships between Academia, the Private Sector, and Local Health Departments for Public Health …

JL Ram, W Shuster, L Gable, CL Turner… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic stimulated stakeholders
from diverse disciplines and institutions to establish new collaborations to produce informed …

Advances in wastewater analysis revealing the co-circulating viral trends of noroviruses and Omicron subvariants

T Kumblathan, Y Liu, M Crisol, X Pang… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Co-presence of enveloped and non-enveloped viruses is common both in community
circulation and in wastewater. Community surveillance of infections requires robust methods …

Quantification and Differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Wastewater for Surveillance

T Kumblathan, Y Liu, X Pang, SE Hrudey… - Environment & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Wastewater surveillance plays an important role in the monitoring of infections of SARS-CoV-
2 at the community level. We report here the determination of SARS-CoV-2 and …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity of wastewater surveillance: What is the minimum COVID-19 cases required in population for SARS-CoV-2 RNA to be detected in wastewater?

C Le - Journal of Environmental Sciences (China), 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wastewater surveillance, also referred to as wastewaterbased surveillance (WBS) and
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), has become a powerful tool for the monitoring …