ReviewCurrent opinion in environmental science & health2020
Implementation of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus to support public health decisions: Opportunities and challenges.
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147 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 344 citations in OpenAlex.
- Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater up to the sampling stage: 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
- Advancing One Health in Africa through continental early warning environmental surveillance.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- From clinical fluids to environmental matrices: quantitative monitoring of infectious monkeypox virus based on PMA-qPCR during the Guangdong outbreak.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Article
- Six Years of COVID-19: Lessons from Epidemiology, Vaccination Campaigns, Clinical Risk Stratification, and Thromboembolic Surveillance.Vaccines · 2026Review
- Pathogens on High-Touch Surfaces in an Arid Megacity: A Longitudinal Molecular Surveillance Study.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- High Detection Frequency of Enteric Pathogens: Insight from Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) Surveillance Approach in Dakar, Senegal.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- A dual-branch deep learning framework for tiered early warning of COVID-19 utilizing wastewater data.Journal of water and health · 2026Article
- A framework for evaluating implementation, impact, and cost-effectiveness of wastewater and environmental surveillance.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Improving surveillance of infectious diseases in child daycare settings: insights from a pilot study in the Netherlands.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Sequencing and variant calling of SARS-CoV-2 from floor swabs: a potential tool for identifying emergent lineages.Microbial genomics · 2025Article
- VIRUS-MVP: a framework for comprehensive surveillance of viral mutations and their functional impacts.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025Article
- Long term assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and the transition to evaluate additional viral targets.The Science of the total environment · 2025Article
- Early detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants from wastewater through genome sequencing and machine learning.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Multi-tiered strategy for large-scale wastewater detection of SARS-CoV-2 in low-case settings provides confidence for public health actions.Journal of water and health · 2025Article
- Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater as an earlier predictor of COVID-19 epidemic peaks in Venezuela.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Slovenia: Key Public Health Tool in Endemic Time of COVID-19.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- 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
- Evaluation of a field deployable, high-throughput RT-LAMP device as an early warning system for COVID-19 through SARS-CoV-2 measurements in wastewater.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Analysing wastewater can be used to track infectious disease agents that are shed via stool and urine. Sewage surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested as a tool to determine the extent of COVID-19 in cities and serve as an early warning for (re-)emergence of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in communities. The focus of this review is on the strength of evidence, opportunities and challenges for the application of sewage surveillance to inform public health decision making. Considerations for undertaking sampling programs are reviewed including sampling sites, strategies, sample transport, storage and quantification methods; together with the approach and evidence base for quantifying prevalence of infection from measured wastewater concentration. Published SARS-CoV-2 sewage surveillance studies (11 peer reviewed and 10 preprints) were reviewed to demonstrate the current status of implementation to support public health decisions. Although being very promising, a number of areas were identified requiring additional research to further strengthen this approach and take full advantage of its potential. In particular, design of adequate sampling strategies, spatial and temporal resolution of sampling, sample storage, replicate sampling and analysis, controls for the molecular methods used for the quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. The use of appropriate prevalence data and methods to correlate or even translate SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in wastewater to prevalence of virus shedders in the population is discussed.
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