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Future perspectives of wastewater-based epidemiology: Monitoring infectious disease spread and resistance to the community level.
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292 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Reviewing the progress of infectious disease early warning systems and planning for the future.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Current state and future perspectives on de facto population markers for normalization in wastewater-based epidemiology: A systematic literature review.The Science of the total environment · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review on the incidence of influenza viruses in wastewater matrices: Implications for public health.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- One Health and Global Health View of Antimicrobial Susceptibility through the "Eye" of Aeromonas: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of antimicrobial agents · 2023Pooled it
- Wastewater surveillance to infer COVID-19 transmission: A systematic review.The Science of the total environment · 2022Pooled it
- Machine learning-enabled wastewater-based surveillance for emerging pathogen detection and monitoring: current applications, challenges, and future prospects.Emerging microbes & infections · 2026Review
- Accounting for methodological variabilities in disease outbreak surveillance using wastewater-based epidemiology: a case study with SARS-CoV-2.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Article
- Re-Emerging Bacterial Pathogens, Resistance Genes and Promising Bioindicators in Raw and Treated Sewage-Addressing a Known Issue from a Different Angle and Perspective.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Designing Infection-Resilient Cruise Ships: Architectural & Digital Health Strategies.EcoHealth · 2026Article
- Wastewater Metagenomic Surveillance Reveals Socioeconomic Patterns of Pathogen Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance in Nairobi, Kenya.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A 3-year wastewater-based epidemiology study of noroviruses in Senegal.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Dataset of illicit drug consumption during and post COVID-19 through wastewater in a city of Chile.Data in brief · 2026Article
- Advancing One Health in Africa through continental early warning environmental surveillance.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Wastewater Metagenomics for Antimicrobial Resistance and Pathogen Surveillance: A Bibliometric Analysis.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases: A New Trick for an Old Threat.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Exploring community-level gut health amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a proposed application of longitudinal wastewater surveillance.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026Article
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- Modeling social and behavioral factors associated with community participation in community-based surveillance of communicable diseases: a cross-sectional study in Kelantan, Malaysia.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2026Article
- Revealing the hidden burden: wastewater-based epidemiology for underreported and emerging infectious diseases in communities.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Review
- Transkingdom Interactions Between Viruses and Bacteria: Implications for Wastewater Treatment Efficiency.Food and environmental virology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Infectious diseases are acknowledged as one of the most critical threats to global public health today. Climate change, unprecedented population growth with accelerated rates of antimicrobial resistance, have resulted in both the emergence of novel pathogenic organisms and the re-emergence of infections that were once controlled. The consequences have led to an increased vulnerability to infectious diseases globally. The ability to rapidly monitor the spread of diseases is key for prevention, intervention and control, however several limitations exist for current surveillance systems and the capacity to cope with the rapid population growth and environmental changes. Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) is a new epidemiology tool that has potential to act as a complementary approach for current infectious disease surveillance systems and an early warning system for disease outbreaks. WBE postulates that through the analysis of population pooled wastewater, infectious disease and resistance spread, the emergence of new disease outbreak to the community level can be monitored comprehensively and in real-time. This manuscript provides critical overview of current infectious disease surveillance status, as well as it introduces WBE and its recent advancements. It also provides recommendations for further development required for WBE application as an effective tool for infectious disease surveillance.
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