Editorial perspective: Viruses in wastewater: Wading into the knowns and unknowns.

Bin Cao, April Z Gu, Pei-Ying Hong, Renata Ivanek, Baikun Li, Aijie Wang, JingYi Wu

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Article in Environmental research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

Performance of methods for SARS-CoV-2 variant detection and abundance estimation within mixed population samples.PeerJ · 2023
Article
Sensitivity of wastewater-based epidemiology for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a low prevalence setting.Water research · 2022
Article
Wastewater-based epidemiology-surveillance and early detection of waterborne pathogens with a focus on SARS-CoV-2, Cryptosporidium and Giardia.Parasitology research · 2021
Review
Estimating the minimum number of SARS-CoV-2 infected cases needed to detect viral RNA in wastewater: To what extent of the outbreak can surveillance of wastewater tell us?Environmental research · 2021
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bin CaoSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 50 Nanyang Ave, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798. Electronic address: bincao@ntu.edu.sg.

April Z GuSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Electronic address: aprilgu@cornell.edu.

Pei-Ying HongEnvironmental Science and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: peiying.hong@kaust.edu.sa.

Renata IvanekEpidemiology, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, USA. Electronic address: ri25@cornell.edu.

Baikun LiDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, 06269. Electronic address: baikun.li@uconn.edu.

Aijie WangKey Lab of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China. Electronic address: ajwang@rcees.ac.cn.

JingYi WuSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Electronic address: jw2522@cornell.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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VirusesWastewaterWastewater

Identifiers

PMID33035556

DOI10.1016/j.envres.2020.110255

PMCPMC7537651

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