ReviewJournal of environmental management2021
Prevalence of human pathogenic viruses in wastewater: A potential transmission risk as well as an effective tool for early outbreak detection for COVID-19.
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- A systematic review on the incidence of influenza viruses in wastewater matrices: Implications for public health.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- The surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater from a one health perspective: A global scoping and temporal review (2014-2024).One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Molecular assessment of oyster microbiomes and viromes reveals their potential as pathogen and ecological sentinels.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Removal capacities of wastewater treatment plants to minimize spread of enteroviruses.Journal of water and health · 2025Article
- Wastewater Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Veneto Region, Italy: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Observational
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- Real-Time On-Site Monitoring of Viruses in Wastewater Using NanotrapBiosensors · 2024Article
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- Game of transmissions (GoT) of SARS-CoV-2: Second wave of COVID-19 is here in India.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2022Review
- Sampling strategies for wastewater surveillance: Evaluating the variability of SARS-COV-2 RNA concentration in composite and grab samples.Journal of environmental chemical engineering · 2022Article
- Hospital sewage treatment facilities witness the fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of environmental management · 2022Article
- Longitudinal, virological, and serological assessment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.Journal of neurovirology · 2022Article
- Cost of wastewater-based environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: Evidence from pilot sites in Blantyre, Malawi and Kathmandu, Nepal.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the sewerage system in Tunisia: a promising tool to confront COVID-19 pandemic.Future virology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Millions of human pathogenic viral particles are shed from infected individuals and introduce into wastewater, subsequently causing waterborne diseases worldwide. These viruses can be transmitted from wastewater to human beings via direct contact and/or ingestion/inhalation of aerosols. Even the advanced wastewater treatment technologies are unable to remove pathogenic viruses from wastewater completely, posing a serious health risk. Recently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been urged globally due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has resulted in >4.1 million deaths until July 2021. A rapid human-to-human transmission, uncertainties in effective vaccines, non-specific medical treatments, and unclear symptoms compelled the world into complete lockdown, social distancing, air-travel suspension, and closure of educational institutions, subsequently damaging the global economy and trade. Although, few medical treatments, rapid detection tools, and vaccines have been developed so far to curb the spread of COVID-19; however, several uncertainties exist in their applicability. Further, the acceptance of vaccines among communities is lower owing to the fear of side effects such as blood-clotting and heart inflammation. SARS-CoV-2, an etiologic agent of COVID-19, has frequently been detected in wastewater, depicting a potential transmission risk to healthy individuals. Contrarily, the occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater can be used as an early outbreak detection tool via water-based epidemiology. Therefore, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 through fecal-oral pathway can be reduced and any possible outbreak can be evaded by proper wastewater surveillance. In this review, wastewater recycling complications, potential health risks of COVID-19 emergence, and current epidemiological measures to control COVID-19 spread have been discussed. Moreover, the viability of SARS-CoV-2 in various environments and survival in wastewater has been reviewed. Additionally, the necessary actions (vaccination, face mask, social distancing, and hand sanitization) to limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 have been recommended. Therefore, wastewater surveillance can serve as a feasible, efficient, and reliable epidemiological measure to lessen the spread of COVID-19.
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