ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021
Viral RNA in City Wastewater as a Key Indicator of COVID-19 Recrudescence and Containment Measures Effectiveness.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Correlation between SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in wastewater and COVID-19 cases in community: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of hazardous materials · 2023Pooled it
- Wastewater surveillance to infer COVID-19 transmission: A systematic review.The Science of the total environment · 2022Pooled it
- Long-Term Sewage Survey of SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and Correlation to Human Cases in a City with One Million Inhabitants.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Integrating wastewater surveillance for future pandemic preparedness by tracking SARS-CoV-2 RNA in municipal wastewater in Southwest Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Public health actions in response to pathogen detection in wastewater and the environment: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Simple Wastewater Preparation Protocol Applied to Monitor the Emergence of the Omicron 21L/BA.2 Variant by Genome Sequencing.Viruses · 2023Article
- Citywide wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels strongly correlated with multiple disease surveillance indicators and outcomes over three COVID-19 waves.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- [The French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute (IRBA) and wastewater-based epidemiology: Applicability and relevance in armed forces].Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine · 2022Review
- A Methodological Approach to Water Concentration to Investigate the Presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Surface Freshwaters.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Wastewater based epidemiology as a silent sentinel of the trend of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the community in central Argentina.Water research · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Was Highly Correlated With the Number of COVID-19 Cases During the Fourth and Fifth Pandemic Wave in Kobe City, Japan.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in open-water sewage canals contaminated with untreated wastewater in resource-constrained regions.Access microbiology · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health Action.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Monitoring the Circulation of SARS-CoV-2 Variants by Genomic Analysis of Wastewater in Marseille, South-East France.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sewage Systems Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: Identification of Knowledge Gaps, Emerging Threats, and Future Research Needs.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Microscopic Observation of SARS-Like Particles in RT-qPCR SARS-CoV-2 Positive Sewage Samples.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
In recent years, and more specifically at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, wastewater surveillance has been proposed as a tool to monitor the epidemiology of human viral infections. In the present work, from July to December 2020, the number of copies of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Marseille's wastewater was correlated with the number of new positive cases diagnosed in our Institute of Infectious Disease, which tested about 20% of the city's population. Number of positive cases and number of copies of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater were significantly correlated (
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