Wastewater surveillance for viral pathogens: A tool for public health

MC Dos Santos, ACC Silva, C dos Reis Teixeira… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
A focus on water quality has intensified globally, considering its critical role in sustaining life
and ecosystems. Wastewater, reflecting societal development, profoundly impacts public …

Automated robot and artificial intelligence-powered wastewater surveillance for proactive mpox outbreak prediction

G Ou, Y Tang, J Liu, Y Hao, Z Chen, T Huang… - Biosafety and …, 2024 - mednexus.org
In the wake of the largest-ever recorded outbreak of mpox in terms of magnitude and
geographical spread in human history since May 2022, we innovatively developed an …

Targeted community wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and Mpox virus during a festival mass-gathering event

K Brighton, S Fisch, H Wu, K Vigil, TG Aw - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance has emerged recently as a powerful approach to understanding
infectious disease dynamics in densely populated zones. Wastewater surveillance, while …

Wastewater analysis of Mpox virus in a city with low prevalence of Mpox disease: an environmental surveillance study

J Oghuan, C Chavarria, SR Vanderwal… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Tracking infectious diseases at the community level is challenging due to
asymptomatic infections and the logistical complexities of mass surveillance. Wastewater …

A scoping review of human pathogens detected in untreated human wastewater and sludge

T Corrin, P Rabeenthira, KM Young… - Journal of Water and …, 2024 - iwaponline.com
Wastewater monitoring is an approach to identify the presence or abundance of pathogens
within a population. The objective of this scoping review (ScR) was to identify and …

Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Mpox (Monkeypox): An Early Surveillance Tool for Detecting Hotspots

MA Islam, R Kumar, P Sharma, S Zhang… - Current Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Mpox (formally monkeypox) has been identified in more than a hundred countries,
confirming at least 93,937 cases from 06 May 2022 to 03 February 2024. The MPXV, the …

Detection of mpox virus in wastewater provides forewarning of clinical cases in Canadian cities

EM Mejia, NA Hizon, CE Dueck, R Lidder… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has shown to be an effective tool in monitoring the
spread of SARS-CoV-2 and has helped guide public health actions. Consequently, WBS …

From pandemic to endemic: Divergence of COVID-19 positive-tests and hospitalization numbers from SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in wastewater of Rochester, Minnesota

R Majumdar, B Taye, C Bjornberg, M Giljork, D Lynch… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Traditionally, public health surveillance relied on individual-level data but recently
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for the detection of infectious diseases including …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater Surveillance of Mpox during the Summer Season of 2023 in Slovenia

J Rožanec, N Kranjec, I Obid, A Steyer… - Infectious Disease …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Since COVID-19, mpox was the first emerging pathogen to have spread globally in 2022.
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has proven to be an efficient early warning system for …

Urban wastewater contains a functional human antibody repertoire of mucosal origin

S Stephenson, W Eid, CH Wong, E Mercier… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Wastewater-based surveillance of human disease offers timely insights to public health,
helping to mitigate infectious disease outbreaks and decrease downstream morbidity and …