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Making Waves: Coronavirus detection, presence and persistence in the water environment: State of the art and knowledge needs for public health.
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95 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Recent progress on wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance: A systematic review of analytical procedures and epidemiological modeling.The Science of the total environment · 2023Pooled it
- Optimized Aluminum Hydroxide Adsorption-Precipitation for Improved Viral Detection in Wastewater.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Does land cover affect the growth rate of COVID-19? Rethinking sustainable habitat from the One Health perspective using data from 12 cities during lockdown in Hubei Province, China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in Tehran's municipal wastewater: performance of treatment systems and feasibility of wastewater-based epidemiology.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2024Article
- An interpretative review of the wastewater-based surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2: where do we stand on its presence and concern?Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Wastewater-based surveillance models for COVID-19: A focused review on spatio-temporal models.Heliyon · 2023Review
- The relevant information about the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) using the five-question approach (when, where, what, why, and how) and its impact on the environment.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023Review
- The dynamic relationship between COVID-19 cases and SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations across time and space: Considerations for model training data sets.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Prediction of COVID-19 positive cases, a nation-wide SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology study.Water research · 2023Article
- Waste management beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Bibliometric and text mining analyses.Gondwana research : international geoscience journal · 2023Article
- Occurrence and transport of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater streams and its detection and remediation by chemical-biological methods.Journal of hazardous materials advances · 2023Article
- Assessment of two volumetrically different concentration approaches to improve sensitivities for SARS-CoV-2 detection during wastewater monitoring.Journal of virological methods · 2023Article
- Importance of wastewater-based epidemiology for detecting and monitoring SARS-CoV-2.Case studies in chemical and environmental engineering · 2022Article
- Is the virus-laden standing water change the transmission intensity of SARS-CoV-2 after precipitation? A framework for empirical studies.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Centralized and decentralized wastewater-based epidemiology to infer COVID-19 transmission - A brief review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Review
- Persistence and occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater environments: a review of the current literature.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Review
- Tracking SARS-CoV-2 in rivers as a tool for epidemiological surveillance.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Development and Validation of a Simplified Method for Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in University Dormitories.ACS ES&T water · 2022Article
- Point-of-care CRISPR/Cas biosensing technology: A promising tool for preventing the possible COVID-19 resurgence caused by contaminated cold-chain food and packaging.Food frontiers · 2022Article
- Recent advances in aqueous virus removal technologies.Chemosphere · 2022Review
35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The main route of transmission of the human coronaviruses (HCoVs), and presumably also of the new pandemic SARS-CoV-2, is via droplets and close contacts, however their fecal elimination also suggests the possible spread via water. A scientific literature search was thus carried out to highlight the current state of the art and knowledge gaps regarding coronavirus in water. Since 1978 only 22 studies have met the inclusion criteria, and considered heterogeneous purposes, detection methods and types of water. In vitro experiments have addressed the recovery efficiency of analytical methods, survival in different types of water and the removal efficiency of water treatments. Field studies have monitored coronaviruses in surface waters, sewage, slurry, and biosolids. Overall, at the lab scale, HCoVs or surrogates can survive for several days at 4 °C, however their persistence is lower compared with non-enveloped viruses and is strongly influenced by temperature and organic or microbial pollution. HCoVs have rarely been detected in field investigations, however may be due to the low recovery efficiency of the analytical methods. The scarcity of information on HCoV in the environment suggests that research is needed to understand the fate of these viruses in the water cycle.
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