ReviewCurrent opinion in environmental science & health2020
The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as surveillance and early warning of infectious disease outbreaks.
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119 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 282 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reviewing the progress of infectious disease early warning systems and planning for the future.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- A 3-year wastewater-based epidemiology study of noroviruses in Senegal.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Detecting and supporting COVID-19 outbreak response in a small-scale nursing home through passive wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
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- Measuring the impact of climate and air quality on COVID-19 transmission dynamics: a tale of two cities in pandemic preparedness.BMC public health · 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
- Wastewater-based surveillance of ESKAPE pathogens in resource-limited countries (RLCs): an essential tool for monitoring antibiotic resistance.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Review
- WEPP: Phylogenetic placement achieves near-haplotype resolution in wastewater-based epidemiology.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Wastewater metaproteomics: tracking microbial and human protein biomarkers.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Optimized MT-Capture targeted enrichment sequencing for the complete genome of norovirus in stool and sewage samples.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
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- Enhancing surveillance of antimicrobial resistant organisms in British Columbia through community-level wastewater testing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Design and development of a modified nanobubble-assisted advanced oxidation process (M-AOP) for high-efficiency wastewater treatment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Global wastewater microbiome reveals core bacterial community and viral diversity with regional antibiotic resistance patterns.mSystems · 2025Article
- Optimization of DNA extraction methods from pig farm wastewater for pathogen detection using metagenomic sequencing.Microbial genomics · 2025Article
- Coupling wastewater-based epidemiology with data-driven machine learning for managing public health risks.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Article
- Relating antimicrobial use to wastewater resistance gene patterns via metagenomic analysis of two neighboring treatment plants circa the COVID-19 pandemic.npj antimicrobials and resistance · 2025Article
- Importance of wastewater-based and environmental surveillance for monitoring resistance to next-generation antibiotics.Future microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Infectious diseases caused by pathogens have become one of the main threats to public health. Efficient monitoring of infectious disease transmission is critical to prevent and manage infectious disease epidemics. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an efficient approach with great potential for early warning of infectious disease transmission and outbreaks. By analyzing infectious disease biomarkers in wastewater taken from wastewater collection points, the transmission of infectious diseases in certain areas can be comprehensively monitored in near real time. This short review presents WBE as a surveillance and early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks regarding pathogens with pandemic potential. We also discuss the challenges and perspective of WBE in infectious disease surveillance and early warning.
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