ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020
Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19: An African perspective.
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- A Systematic Review of Gastrointestinal and Respiratory Pathogen Detection in Wastewater in Africa, with Focus on Rwanda: Implications for Early Warning and Public Health Surveillance.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Pooled it
- Wastewater surveillance to infer COVID-19 transmission: A systematic review.The Science of the total environment · 2022Pooled it
- SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in municipal wastewater, landfill leachate, and solid waste: A review about virus surveillance, infectivity, and inactivation.Environmental research · 2022Pooled it
- Seasonal and spatial variability of PMMoV in tropical urban wastewater-based surveillance: implications for accurate SARS-CoV-2 monitoring in Kampala, Uganda.BMC public health · 2026Article
- SARS-CoV-2 wastewater genomic surveillance: approaches, challenges, and opportunities.Genome biology · 2026Review
- Evaluation and estimation of epidemic trajectories for SARS-CoV-2 from clinical and wastewater data in Gauteng Province, South Africa.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Clinical correlation of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater passive sampling in long-term care facilities and wastewater treatment plants.Environmental advances · 2025Article
- Development of Bayesian segmented Poisson regression model to forecast COVID-19 dynamics based on wastewater data: a case study in Nanning City, China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A Review of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for the SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Rural, Remote, and Resource-Constrained Settings Internationally: Insights for Implementation, Research, and Policy for First Nations in Canada.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Zambia: An Early Warning Tool.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Simple SARS-CoV-2 concentration methods for wastewater surveillance in low resource settings.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- A narrative review of alternative transmission routes of COVID 19: what we know so far.Pathogens and global health · 2023Review
- Addressing the challenges of establishing quality wastewater or non-sewered sanitation-based surveillance, including laboratory and epidemiological considerations, in Malawi.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- COVID-19 monitoring with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater in urban and rural communities.iScience · 2023Article
- 20-Month monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater of Curitiba, in Southern Brazil.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023Article
- Improving wastewater-based epidemiology performance through streamlined automation.Journal of environmental chemical engineering · 2023Article
- Rapid Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Variant-Associated Mutations in Wastewater Using Real-Time RT-PCR.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Strategies for safe management of hospital wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of environmental science and technology : IJEST · 2023Review
- Water and wastewater digital surveillance for monitoring and early detection of the COVID-19 hotspot: industry 4.0.International journal of environmental science and technology : IJEST · 2023Review
- Temporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 genome and detection of variants of concern in wastewater influent from two metropolitan areas in Arkansas.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the importance of access to sufficient quantities of safe water and sanitation in public health. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, an early warning wastewater system has been proposed as a platform for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, and a potentially important public health strategy to combat the disease. This short communication on wastewater surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa highlights challenges, opportunities and alternatives taken into account the local context.
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