ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Could Water and Sanitation Shortfalls Exacerbate SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risks?
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Global prevalence of prolonged gastrointestinal symptoms in COVID-19 survivors and potential pathogenesis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.F1000Research · 2021Pooled it
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- Multi-taxon trends and the application of genotoxic biomarkers in the analysis of effluents from sewage treatment plant.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Study of the correlation between Covid-19 cases and deaths and basic sanitation in Brazil: Is this a possible secondary route of virus transmission?Journal of hazardous materials advances · 2022Article
- Recover the food-energy-water nexus from COVID-19 under Sustainable Development Goals acceleration actions.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Shedding light on toxicity of SARS-CoV-2 peptides in aquatic biota: A study involving neotropical mosquito larvae (Diptera: Culicidae).Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2021Article
- Challenges to detect SARS-CoV-2 on environmental media, the need and strategies to implement the detection methodologies in wastewaters.Journal of environmental chemical engineering · 2021Review
- A critical review on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in water and wastewater. What do we know?The Science of the total environment · 2021Review
- Leaving no stone unturned in light of the COVID-19 faecal-oral hypothesis? A water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) perspective targeting low-income countries.The Science of the total environment · 2021Review
- COVID-19 surveillance systems in African countries.Health promotion perspectives · 2021Review
- Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) and Viral Detection in Polluted Surface Water: A Valuable Tool for COVID-19 Surveillance-A Brief Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- SARS-CoV-2 in the environment: Modes of transmission, early detection and potential role of pollutions.The Science of the total environment · 2020Review
- Sanitation Practices during Early Phases of COVID-19 Lockdown in Peri-Urban Communities in Tamil Nadu, India.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
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Abstract
SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19, is shed in stool. SARS coronaviruses have been detected in wastewater during outbreaks in China, Europe, and the United States. In this perspective, we outline the risk fecal shedding poses at locations without safely managed sanitation, as in most of Nigeria where we work. We believe that feco-oral transmission could occur if community transmission becomes high and sustained in densely populated cities without proper sanitation in Nigeria and many other African and Asian settings. In the absence of basic sanitation, or where existing sanitation is not safely managed, groundwater, which is often drawn up from wells and boreholes for drinking and household use, can become contaminated with enteric bacteria and viruses from fecal matter. Endemic and epidemic transmission of multiple feco-oral pathogens via this route continues to be documented in areas without safely managed sanitation, and, therefore, the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission needs to be evaluated, tracked, and forestalled in such settings. We suggest that fecal matter from treatment facilities and recovered patients should be carefully and properly disposed. Furthermore, environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and accumulated human waste, as well as efforts to mitigate the virus' entry into unprotected household water sources, should be a priority part of the COVID-19 response in settings without safely managed sanitation for the duration of the pandemic.
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