Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic

KKW To, S Sridhar, KHY Chiu, DLL Hung… - Emerging microbes & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Without modern medical management and vaccines, the severity of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater surveillance to infer COVID-19 transmission: A systematic review

S Shah, SXW Gwee, JQX Ng, N Lau, J Koh… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Successful detection of SARS-COV-2 in wastewater suggests the potential utility of
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for COVID-19 community surveillance. This …

[HTML][HTML] Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance

W Ahmed, SL Simpson, PM Bertsch, K Bibby… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain
reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective and resource-efficient tool for gathering community-level …

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 …

Early warning of COVID-19 via wastewater-based epidemiology: potential and bottlenecks

Y Zhu, W Oishi, C Maruo, M Saito, R Chen… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
An effective early warning tool is of great administrative and social significance to the
containment and control of an epidemic. Facing the unprecedented global public health …

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 …

Back-estimation of norovirus infections through wastewater-based epidemiology: A systematic review and parameter sensitivity

Y Guo, J Li, J O'Brien, M Sivakumar, G Jiang - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The amount of norovirus RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) in raw wastewater, collected from a
wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), can provide an indication of disease prevalence within …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in Germany: Long-term RT-digital droplet PCR monitoring, suitability of primer/probe combinations and biomarker …

J Ho, C Stange, R Suhrborg, C Wurzbacher, JE Drewes… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent months, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been shown to be an
important tool for early detection of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the population. In this study, a …

Feasibility of neighborhood and building scale wastewater-based genomic epidemiology for pathogen surveillance

RR Spurbeck, A Minard-Smith, L Catlin - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The benefits of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for tracking the viral load of SARS-
CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, have become apparent since the start of the …

Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection cases or outbreaks at nursing homes by targeted wastewater tracking

L Davó, R Seguí, P Botija… - Clinical …, 2021 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
Nursing homes (NH) have been severely affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) pandemic, largely due to their congregate nature and the vulnerability of residents [1] …