ReviewThe Science of the total environment2021
SARS-CoV-2 in hospital wastewater during outbreak of COVID-19: A review on detection, survival and disinfection technologies.
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- Emerging contaminants in healthcare effluents: antibiotic resistance and virulence factor dissemination.Folia microbiologica · 2025Review
- Skilled nursing facility wastewater surveillance: a SARS-CoV-2 and antimicrobial resistance detection pilot study.Journal of water and health · 2025Article
- Turning analysis into action: opportunities and challenges in implementing wastewater science for public health decision-making.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Near-source wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, norovirus, influenza virus and RSV across five different sites in the UK.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Monitoring the VDPV2 outbreak in Egypt during 2020-2021 highlights the crucial role of environmental surveillance and boosting immunization in combating Poliovirus.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Wastewater treatment from a science faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic by using ammonium-oxidising and heterotrophic bacteria.3 Biotech · 2024Article
- An interpretative review of the wastewater-based surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2: where do we stand on its presence and concern?Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century.Chemosphere · 2023Review
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- Dependency of sanitation infrastructure on the discharge of faecal coliform and SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in wastewater from COVID and non-COVID hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples from hospitals treating COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in Brazil.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Strategies for safe management of hospital wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of environmental science and technology : IJEST · 2023Review
- Review of hospital effluents: special emphasis on characterization, impact, and treatment of pollutants and antibiotic resistance.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2023Review
- Occurrence and transport of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater streams and its detection and remediation by chemical-biological methods.Journal of hazardous materials advances · 2023Article
- COVID-19 and Water Variables: Review and Scientometric Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Presence in Treated and Untreated Hospital Sewage.Water, air, and soil pollution · 2023Article
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital wastewater treatment plant effluent and the possible consequences of its reuse in agricultural irrigation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Theoretical investigation on the interactions of microplastics with a SARS-CoV-2 RNA fragment and their potential impacts on viral transport and exposure.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Elucidating the role of environmental management of forests, air quality, solid waste and wastewater on the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2.Hygiene and environmental health advances · 2022Review
- Longitudinal metatranscriptomic sequencing of Southern California wastewater representing 16 million people from August 2020-21 reveals widespread transcription of antibiotic resistance genes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Currently, the apparition of new SARS-CoV, known as SARS-CoV-2, affected more than 34 million people and causing high death rates worldwide. Recently, several studies reported SARS-CoV-2 ribonucleic acid (RNA) in hospital wastewater. SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted between humans via respiratory droplets, close contact and fomites. Fecal-oral transmission is considered also as a potential route of transmission since several scientists confirmed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in feces of infected patients, therefore its transmission via feces in aquatic environment, particularly hospital wastewater. Hospitals are one of the important classes of polluting sectors around the world. It was identified that hospital wastewater contains hazardous elements and a wide variety of microbial pathogens and viruses. Therefore, this may potentially pose a significant risk of public health and environment infection. This study reported an introduction about the Physical-chemical and microbiological characterization of hospital wastewater, which can be a route to identify potential technology to reduce the impact of hospital contaminants before evacuation. The presence of SARS-CoV-2 in aqueous environment was reviewed. The knowledge of the detection and survival of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and hospital wastewater were described to understand the different routes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, which is also useful to avoid the outbreak of CoV-19. In addition, disinfection technologies used commonly for deactivation of SARS-CoV-2 were highlighted. It was revealed that, chlorine-containing disinfectants are the most commonly used disinfectants in this field of research. Meanwhile, other efficient technologies must be developed and improved to avoid another wave of the pandemic of COVID-19 infections.
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