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 …

A global aircraft-based wastewater genomic surveillance network for early warning of future pandemics

J Li, I Hosegood, D Powell, B Tscharke… - The Lancet Global …, 2023 - thelancet.com
International airports can have a key role in screening, detecting, and mitigating cross-
border transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and potentially other infectious diseases. With aircraft …

Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewater

DS Smyth, M Trujillo, DA Gregory, K Cheung… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity is strongly indicated because diversifying selection
may lead to the emergence of novel variants resistant to naturally acquired or vaccine …

Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 monitoring as a community-level COVID-19 trend tracker and variants in Ohio, United States

Y Ai, A Davis, D Jones, S Lemeshow, H Tu, F He… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has resulted in more than 129 million confirm cases. Many health authorities around …

Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale

F Amman, R Markt, L Endler, S Hupfauf, B Agerer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance by wastewater-based epidemiology is poised to provide a
complementary approach to sequencing individual cases. However, robust quantification of …

SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in wastewater as a model for monitoring evolution of endemic viruses

M Yousif, S Rachida, S Taukobong, N Ndlovu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As global SARS-CoV-2 burden and testing frequency have decreased, wastewater
surveillance has emerged as a key tool to support clinical surveillance efforts. The aims of …

Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B. 1.1. 7 tracking in wastewater by allele-specific RT-qPCR

WL Lee, M Imakaev, F Armas, KA McElroy… - … & Technology Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The critical need for surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern has prompted the
development of methods that can track variants in wastewater. Here, we develop and …

Making waves: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an endemic future

F Wu, WL Lee, H Chen, X Gu, F Chandra, F Armas… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has been widely used as a public health tool to
monitor the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 infections in populations during the …

Genetic diversity and evolutionary convergence of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected via wastewater sequencing

DA Gregory, M Trujillo, C Rushford, A Flury… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an effective way of tracking the appearance and
spread of SARS-COV-2 lineages through communities. Beginning in early 2021, we …

Prevalence and circulation patterns of SARS-CoV-2 variants in European sewage mirror clinical data of 54 European cities

S Agrawal, L Orschler, S Schubert, K Zachmann… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
For community-level monitoring, the European Commission under the EU Sewage Sentinel
System recommends wastewater-based SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. Tracking SARS-CoV-2 …