ReviewEnvironmental research2021
A review of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and airborne particulates and its use for virus spreading surveillance.
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- A review on measurements of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in air in outdoor and indoor environments: Implication for airborne transmission.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
- Unsupervised detection and fitness estimation of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants: Application to wastewater samples (ANRS0160).PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Measuring SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Bangkok wastewater treatment plants and estimating infected population after fully opening the country in 2023, Thailand.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Real-Time On-Site Monitoring of Viruses in Wastewater Using NanotrapBiosensors · 2024Article
- Changes to Public Health Surveillance Methods Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- An exploration of the relationship between wastewater viral signals and COVID-19 hospitalizations in Ottawa, Canada.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2023Article
- Surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa through wastewater-based epidemiology.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Peculiar weather patterns effects on air pollution and COVID-19 spread in Tokyo metropolis.Environmental research · 2023Observational
- The spread of the omicron variant: Identification of knowledge gaps, virus diffusion modelling, and future research needs.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Evaluation of pre-treated healthcare wastes during COVID-19 pandemic reveals pathogenic microbiota, antibiotics residues, and antibiotic resistance genes against beta-lactams.Environmental research · 2023Article
- 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
- Microbial strategies for degradation of microplastics generated from COVID-19 healthcare waste.Environmental research · 2023Review
- Environmental challenges of COVID-19 pandemic: resilience and sustainability - A review.Environmental research · 2023Review
- Wastewater-based epidemiology: a new frontier for tracking environmental persistence and community transmission of COVID-19.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Review
- A safe haven of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment: Prevalence and potential transmission risks in the effluent, sludge, and biosolids.Geoscience frontiers · 2022Article
- Use of geospatial tools to predict the risk of contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in urban cemeteries.Geoscience frontiers · 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
- SARS-CoV-2 in Atmospheric Particulate Matter: An Experimental Survey in the Province of Venice in Northern Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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10 authors at 8 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
According to the WHO, on October 16, 2020, the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, reached 235 countries and territories, and resulting in more than 39 million confirmed cases and 1.09 million deaths globally. Monitoring of the virus outbreak is one of the main activities pursued to limiting the number of infected people and decreasing the number of deaths that have caused high pressure on the health care, social, and economic systems of different countries. Wastewater based epidemiology (WBE), already adopted for the surveillance of life style and health conditions of communities, shows interesting features for the monitoring of the COVID-19 diffusion. Together with wastewater, the analysis of airborne particles has been recently suggested as another useful tool for detecting the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in given areas. The present review reports the status of research currently performed concerning the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 spreading by WBE and airborne particles. The former have been more investigated, whereas the latter is still at a very early stage, with a limited number of very recent studies. Nevertheless, the main results highlights in both cases necessitate more research activity for better understating and defining the biomarkers and the related sampling and analysis procedures to be used for this important aim.
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