ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2020
Reviving the "Moore Swab": a Classic Environmental Surveillance Tool Involving Filtration of Flowing Surface Water and Sewage Water To Recover Typhoidal
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- Systematic review on the laboratory methodology for conducting wastewater and environmental surveillance forFrontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Real-time public health interventions driven by wastewater and environmental surveillance during Uganda's 2025 martyrs day mass gathering.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- Large-volume sampling for improved characterization of microbial contamination in agricultural waters: a case study from southeastern U.S. produce farms.Journal of water and health · 2026Article
- Accessible ethics and legal advice for wastewater surveillance: The WWS ethics adviser app.PLOS water · 2026Article
- Budget impact of wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 in a large urban jail: an activity-based cost analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Diversity of Salmonella enterica isolates from urban river and sewage water in Blantyre, Malawi.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Clinical correlation of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater passive sampling in long-term care facilities and wastewater treatment plants.Environmental advances · 2025Article
- Environmental surveillance for Salmonella Typhi to detect the typhoid burden in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.International journal of hygiene and environmental health · 2025Article
- Genomic Epidemiology for Estimating Pathogen Burden in a Population.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Assessing Passive Sampling for the Monitoring ofACS ES&T water · 2025Article
- Wastewater surveillance for Salmonella Typhi and its association with seroincidence of enteric fever in Vellore, India.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Transmission dynamics for invasive Non-TyphoidalWellcome open research · 2025Article
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- Evaluation of Moore and grab sampling method for Salmonella Typhi detection in environmental samples in Ghana.PloS one · 2025Article
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- A Narrative Review of High Throughput Wastewater Sample Processing for Infectious Disease Surveillance: Challenges, Progress, and Future Opportunities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Environmental surveillance for Salmonella Typhi in rivers and wastewater from an informal sewage network in Blantyre, Malawi.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
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Abstract
The "Moore swab" is a classic environmental surveillance tool whereby a gauze pad tied with string is suspended in flowing water or wastewater contaminated with human feces and harboring enteric pathogens that pose a human health threat. In contrast to single volume "grab" samples, Moore swabs act as continuous filters to "trap" microorganisms, which are subsequently isolated and confirmed using appropriate laboratory methods. Continuous filtration is valuable for the isolation of transiently present pathogens such as human-restricted
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