ReviewParasitology research2021
Wastewater-based epidemiology-surveillance and early detection of waterborne pathogens with a focus on SARS-CoV-2, Cryptosporidium and Giardia.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.
- WaterborneJournal of water and health · 2024Pooled it
- Wastewater surveillance to infer COVID-19 transmission: A systematic review.The Science of the total environment · 2022Pooled it
- Integrating environmental and clinical surveillance for typhoid: insights from a prospective wastewater surveillance study in urban India.The Lancet. Microbe · 2026Article
- Performance and suitability of wastewater based-surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in public schools.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Solid Evidence and Liquid Gold: Trade-Offs of Processing Settled Solids, Whole Influent, or Centrifuged Influent for Codetecting Viral, Bacterial, and Eukaryotic Pathogens in Wastewater.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Recent developments in waterborne pathogen detection technologies.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025Review
- Parasites in Sewage: Legal Requirements and Diagnostic Tools.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Toward a unified approach: Considerations for bioinformatic and sequencing activities & data in wastewater surveillance of biologic public health threats.Open research Europe · 2025Article
- [Application and Significance of Wastewater-based Pathogen Monitoring in Infectious Disease Surveillance: Insights from International Case Studies].Jugan geon-gang gwa jilbyeong · 2024Review
- Food and Waterborne Cryptosporidiosis from a One Health Perspective: A Comprehensive Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Detection of biological loads in sewage using the automated robot-driven photoelectrochemical biosensing platform.Exploration (Beijing, China) · 2024Article
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- A Community WaterborneInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Changes to Public Health Surveillance Methods Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- A narrative review of wastewater surveillance: pathogens of concern, applications, detection methods, and challenges.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Characterizing Spatial Information Loss for Wastewater Surveillance Using crAssphage: Effect of Decay, Temperature, and Population Mobility.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Nonbacterial Microflora in Wastewater Treatment Plants: an Underappreciated Potential Source of Pathogens.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Migrating Anatidae as Sources of Environmental Contamination with ZoonoticPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- COVID-19 and Water Variables: Review and Scientometric Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Waterborne diseases are a major global problem, resulting in high morbidity and mortality, and massive economic costs. The ability to rapidly and reliably detect and monitor the spread of waterborne diseases is vital for early intervention and preventing more widespread disease outbreaks. Pathogens are, however, difficult to detect in water and are not practicably detectable at acceptable concentrations that need to be achieved in treated drinking water (which are of the order one per million litre). Furthermore, current clinical-based surveillance methods have many limitations such as the invasive nature of the testing and the challenges in testing large numbers of people. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which is based on the analysis of wastewater to monitor the emergence and spread of infectious disease at a population level, has received renewed attention in light of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The present review will focus on the application of WBE for the detection and surveillance of pathogens with a focus on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the waterborne protozoan parasites Cryptosporidium and Giardia. The review highlights the benefits and challenges of WBE and the future of this tool for community-wide infectious disease surveillance.
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