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ReviewCurrent pollution reports2021

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Communities Through Wastewater Surveillance-a Potential Approach for Estimation of Disease Burden.

Prosun Bhattacharya, Manish Kumar, Md Tahmidul Islam, Rehnuma Haque, Sudip Chakraborty, Arslan Ahmad, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Zeynep Cetecioglu, David Nilsson, Julian Ijumulana and 8 more

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Review in Current pollution reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing 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

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Wastewater-based epidemiology: A Brazilian SARS-COV-2 surveillance experience.Journal of environmental chemical engineering · 2022
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  13. Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Bangladesh: Opportunities and challenges.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2022
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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

18 authors.

Prosun Bhattacharya *Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-11428 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4350-9950
Manish Kumar *Discipline of Earth Science, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382 355 India.
Md Tahmidul IslamDepartment of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-11428 Stockholm, Sweden.
Rehnuma HaqueEnvironmental Interventions Unit, Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212 Bangladesh.
Sudip ChakrabortyDepartment of DIMES, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, Cubo 42/a, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Arslan AhmadDepartment of Environmental Technology, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Nabeel Khan NiaziInstitute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38040 Pakistan.
Zeynep CeteciogluDepartment of Chemical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 42, Stockholm, SE-10044 Sweden.
David NilssonWaterCenter@KTH, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-11428 Stockholm, Sweden.
Julian IjumulanaDepartment of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10B, SE-11428 Stockholm, Sweden.
Tom van der VoornUniversity of Osnabrück, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Barbarastr. 12, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany.
Md JakariyaDepartment of Environmental Science and Management, North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka, 1229 Bangladesh.
Maqsud HossainDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology, NSU Genome Research Institute (NGRI), North South University, Bashundhara, Dhaka, 1229 Bangladesh.
Firoz AhmedDepartment of Microbiology, Noakhali University of Science and Technology, Noakhali, Bangladesh.
Mahbubur RahmanEnvironmental Interventions Unit, Infectious Disease Division, icddr,b, 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212 Bangladesh.
Nargis AkterWater Sanitation and Hygiene Section, United Nations Children's Fund, BSL Office Complex, 1 Minto Road, Dhaka, 1000 Bangladesh.
Dara JohnstonWater Sanitation and Hygiene Section, United Nations Children's Fund, BSL Office Complex, 1 Minto Road, Dhaka, 1000 Bangladesh.
Kazi Matin AhmedDepartment of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000 Bangladesh.

Funding

Research Mentoring and Building Capacity of underrepresented Minority Research Scientists in India.D43TW010540 · FIC · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MICHELE BARRY, Eva Harris · 2017 to 2026
$15.5M
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW010540
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The episodic outbreak of COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 is severely affecting the economy, and the global count of infected patients is increasing. The actual number of patients had been underestimated due to limited facilities for testing as well as asymptomatic nature of the expression of COVID-19 on individual basis. Tragically, for emerging economies with high population density, the situation has been more complex due to insufficient testing facilities for diagnosis of the disease. However, the recent reports about persistent shedding of viral RNA of SARS-CoV-2 in the human feces have created a possibility to track the prevalence and trends of the disease in communities, known as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). In this article, we highlight the current limitations and future prospects for WBE to manage pandemics.

Indexed as

COVID-19Developing CountriesMonitoringPrevalenceSARS-CoV-2Wastewater surveillance

Identifiers

PMID33842197
PMCPMC8021931

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