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 …

Evaluating various composite sampling modes for detecting pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 virus in raw sewage

Y Li, KT Ash, DC Joyner, DE Williams… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Inadequate sampling approaches to wastewater analyses can introduce biases, leading to
inaccurate results such as false negatives and significant over-or underestimation of …

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 …

Subsewershed Analyses of the Impacts of Inflow and Infiltration on Viral Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance Markers Across a Rural Sewer System

A Darling, B Davis, T Byrnex, M Deck, GM Rivera… - Water Research, 2025 - Elsevier
As wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) is increasingly used to track community-level
disease trends, it is important to understand how pathogen signals can be altered by …

Longitudinal monitoring of sewershed resistomes in socioeconomically diverse urban neighborhoods

J Lee, K Xiang, E Au, S Sarabi, N Acosta… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Background Understanding factors associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
distribution across populations is a necessary step in planning mitigation measures. While …

Amplitude multiplexed wastewater surveillance for campus health: tracking SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, and norovirus

MA Saldana, J Geng, L Shen… - … : Water Research & …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The University of Southern California implemented a wastewater-based surveillance
program (USC-WS) to proactively prevent viral outbreaks and maintain a safe campus …

Detection of Omicron variant in November 2021: a retrospective analysis through wastewater in Halifax, Canada

EK Hayes, C Sweeney, AK Stoddart… - … : Water Research & …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
This study evaluates the efficacy of wastewater surveillance (WWS) for the early detection of
the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a university setting in Halifax, Canada. Utilizing an …

Early warning COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care facilities using wastewater surveillance: correlation, prediction, and interaction with clinical and serological …

X Pang, BE Lee, T Gao, RJ Rosychuk, L Immaraj… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the strategic value of
wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) of SARS-CoV-2. This multisite 28-month-long study …

Building-level Wastewater Surveillance as an Early Warning System for COVID-19 Outbreaks in Congregate Living Settings

N Exum, SJ Chow, C Coulter, CD Gocke… - … : Water Research & …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to collect wastewater (WW) from a
defined population of individuals within a building and monitor the sewage for viral RNA as …

Longitudinal monitoring of sewershed resistomes in socioeconomically diverse urban neighbourhoods

M Parkins, J Lee, K Xiang, E Au, S Sarabi, N Acosta… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Understanding factors associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) distribution across
populations is a necessary step in planning optimal mitigation measures. While associations …