ReviewCurrent opinion in environmental science & health2020
Wastewater and public health: the potential of wastewater surveillance for monitoring COVID-19.
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- Environmental and microbial factors shaping SARS-CoV-2 RNA decay in wastewater: insights from batch tests and a lab-scale sewer pipeline simulator.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Wastewater metaproteomics: tracking microbial and human protein biomarkers.ISME communications · 2026Article
- A 1-year study on SARS-CoV-2 variant shifts in wastewater using dPCR: comparison with clinical and GISAID data.mSystems · 2025Article
- Barriers to translating continuous monitoring technologies for preventative medicine.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Review
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- Optimization of DNA extraction methods from pig farm wastewater for pathogen detection using metagenomic sequencing.Microbial genomics · 2025Article
- One Health: enabler of effective prevention, control and elimination of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Review
- Ethical Considerations for Wastewater Surveillance Conducted by the US Department of Defense.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- A Perspective on Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance as a Public Health Tool for Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Consistent trends from different methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in urban wastewater during a 29-month longitudinal study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Emergence to dominance: Estimating time to dominance of SARS-CoV-2 variants using nonlinear statistical models.PloS one · 2025Article
- Temporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater and population infection trends in Mexico City.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Surveillance of public health pathogens in Lagos wastewater canals: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Wastewater-Based Surveillance Reveals the Effectiveness of the First COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns in Assisted Living Facilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Public health use and lessons learned from a statewide SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring program (MiNET).Heliyon · 2024Article
- Advancing Public Health Surveillance: Integrating Modeling and GIS in the Wastewater-Based Epidemiology of Viruses, a Narrative Review.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Analytical validation of a semi-automated methodology for quantitative measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater collected in northern New England.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
- Assessing SARS-CoV-2 Testing Adherence in a University Town: Recurrent Event Modeling Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- New prospects of environmental RNA metabarcoding research in biological diversity, ecotoxicological monitoring, and detection of COVID-19: a critical review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Review
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Abstract
Pathogenic viruses represent one of the greatest threats to human well-being. As evidenced by the COVID-19 global pandemic, however, halting the spread of highly contagious diseases is notoriously difficult. Successful control strategies therefore have to rely on effective surveillance. Here, we describe how monitoring wastewater from urban areas can be used to detect the arrival and subsequent decline of pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2. As the amount of virus shed in faeces and urine varies largely from person to person, it is very difficult to quantitatively determine the number of people who are infected in the population. More research on the surveillance of viruses in wastewater using accurate and validated methods, as well as subsequent risk analysis and modelling is paramount in understanding the dynamics of viral outbreaks.
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