[HTML][HTML] Future perspectives of wastewater-based epidemiology: monitoring infectious disease spread and resistance to the community level

N Sims, B Kasprzyk-Hordern - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases are acknowledged as one of the most critical threats to global public
health today. Climate change, unprecedented population growth with accelerated rates of …

[HTML][HTML] Making waves: wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19–approaches and challenges for surveillance and prediction

D Polo, M Quintela-Baluja, A Corbishley, DL Jones… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the feces of infected patients and wastewater has drawn
attention, not only to the possibility of fecal-oral transmission but also to the use of …

Implementation of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus to support public health decisions: opportunities and challenges

G Medema, F Been, L Heijnen, S Petterson - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Analysing wastewater can be used to track infectious disease agents that are shed via stool
and urine. Sewage surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested as a tool to determine …

SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater settled solids is associated with COVID-19 cases in a large urban sewershed

KE Graham, SK Loeb, MK Wolfe, D Catoe… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wastewater-based epidemiology may be useful for informing public health response to viral
diseases like COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2. We quantified SARS-CoV-2 RNA in …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and managing uncertainty and variability for wastewater monitoring beyond the pandemic: Lessons learned from the United Kingdom national …

MJ Wade, AL Jacomo, E Armenise, MR Brown… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on public health resources
around the world. From adversity, opportunities have arisen to measure the state and …

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance data can predict hospitalizations and ICU admissions

A Galani, R Aalizadeh, M Kostakis, A Markou… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract We measured SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in raw wastewater in Attica, Greece, by RT-
qPCR for the environmental surveillance of COVID-19 for 6 months. The lag between RNA …

Wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers: past, present and future

PM Choi, BJ Tscharke, E Donner, JW O'Brien… - TrAC Trends in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater is a complex matrix containing a wide range of chemical and biological markers
of human activity. Relating concentrations of these “waste” materials in wastewater influent …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater up to the sampling stage: A systematic review

X Bertels, P Demeyer, S Van den Bogaert… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) for SARS-CoV-2 RNA is a promising complementary
approach to monitor community viral circulation. A myriad of factors, however, can influence …

Does normalization of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations by Pepper Mild Mottle Virus improve correlations and lead time between wastewater surveillance and clinical data …

R Maal-Bared, Y Qiu, Q Li, T Gao, SE Hrudey… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) data normalization is an analyte measurement
correction that addresses variations resulting from dilution of fecal discharge by non-sanitary …