Abstract The Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) have
effectively kept lower antibiotic-resistant bacterial (ARB) pathogen rates than many other …

A focus on water quality has intensified globally, considering its critical role in sustaining life
and ecosystems. Wastewater, reflecting societal development, profoundly impacts public …

Since 2020 wastewater-based surveillance has quickly been established as an effective and
cost-efficient tool for monitoring global public health. In this Making Waves article, we argue …

The sampling and analysis of sewage for pathogens and other biomarkers offers a powerful
tool for monitoring and understanding community health trends and potentially predicting …

Background Wastewater surveillance (WWS) acts as a vigilant sentinel system for
communities, analysing sewage to protect public health by detecting outbreaks and …

Clinical testing has been a vital part of the response to and suppression of the COVID-19
pandemic; however, testing imposes significant burdens on a population. College students …

Wastewater comprises multiple pathogens and offers a potential for wastewater-based
surveillance (WBS) to track the prevalence of communicable diseases. The Finnish WastPan …

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) provides value to public health monitoring and
protection. Participation of public and private wastewater system operators in WBE efforts is …

In the United States, the growing number of people experiencing homelessness has
become a socioeconomic crisis with public health ramifications, recently exacerbated by the …

Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) is widely used for monitoring viruses,
including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), in wastewater …