Microbiome interconnectedness throughout environments with major consequences for healthy people and a healthy planet

A Sessitsch, S Wakelin, M Schloter… - Microbiology and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbiomes have highly important roles for ecosystem functioning and carry out key
functions that support planetary health, including nutrient cycling, climate regulation, and …

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 …

Making waves: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an endemic future

F Wu, WL Lee, H Chen, X Gu, F Chandra, F Armas… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has been widely used as a public health tool to
monitor the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 infections in populations during the …

Structured ethical review for wastewater-based testing in support of public health

DA Bowes, A Darling, EM Driver, D Kaya… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Wastewater-based testing (WBT) for SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly expanded over the past three
years due to its ability to provide a comprehensive measurement of disease prevalence …

Zika virus RNA persistence and recovery in water and wastewater: an approach for Zika virus surveillance in resource-constrained settings

K Zhu, C Hill, A Muirhead, M Basu, J Brown, MA Brinton… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract During the 2015–2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas, serological cross-
reactivity with other flaviviruses and relatively high costs of nucleic acid testing in the region …

SARS-CoV-2 raw wastewater surveillance from student residences on an urban university campus

KT Ash, Y Li, I Alamilla, DC Joyner… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an urgent need to monitor the community
prevalence of infection and detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2. Testing individual people is …

Building-level detection threshold of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater

NC Rondeau, OJ Rose, ER Alt, LA Ariyan… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
We established wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in a small, residential, urban
college as part of an integrated public health response during the COVID-19 pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring of COVID-19 in wastewater across the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan

MM Jarvie, M Reed-Lukomski, B Southwell… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology is being used as a tool to monitor the spread of COVID-19
and provide an early warning for the presence or increase of clinical cases in a community …

Baseline sequencing surveillance of public clinical testing, hospitals, and community wastewater reveals rapid emergence of SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant of concern …

MF Smith, SC Holland, MB Lee, JC Hu, NC Pham… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants is driven by selection for increased viral
fitness in transmissibility and immune evasion. Understanding the dynamics of how an …

Rapid assessment of SARS-CoV-2 variant-associated mutations in wastewater using real-time RT-PCR

K Farkas, C Pellett, R Williams… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Within months of the COVID-19 pandemic being declared on March 20, 2020, novel, more
infectious variants of SARS-CoV-2 began to be detected in geospatially distinct regions of …