ReviewCurrent opinion in environmental science & health2022
Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Bangladesh: Opportunities and challenges.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Genetic diversity and occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes from community wastewater in Dhaka and Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Advancing health equity in wastewater-based epidemiology: A global critical review and conceptual framework.SSM - population health · 2025Review
- Wastewater surveillance in the military: how deployed members of the armed forces can monitor outbreaks on military vessels.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2025Article
- Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave.PloS one · 2024Article
- Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater of Dhaka City, Bangladesh: approach to complement public health surveillance systems.Human genomics · 2023Article
- Nontarget Analysis of Polluted Surface Waters in Bangladesh Using Open Science Workflows.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Dependency of sanitation infrastructure on the discharge of faecal coliform and SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in wastewater from COVID and non-COVID hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- An opinion on Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring (WBEM) with Clinical Diagnostic Test (CDT) for detecting high-prevalence areas of community COVID-19 Infections.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2022Review
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Abstract
The ongoing pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health crisis of global concern. The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic has been monitored in the first place by testing symptomatic individuals for SARS-CoV-2 virus in the respiratory samples. Concurrently, wastewater carries feces, urine, and sputum that potentially contains SARS-CoV-2 intact virus or partially damaged viral genetic materials excreted by infected individuals. This brings significant opportunities for understanding the infection dynamics by environmental surveillance. It has advantages for the country, especially in densely populated areas where individual clinical testing is difficult. However, there are several challenges including: 1) establishing a sampling plan and schedule that is representative of the various catchment populations 2) development and validation of standardized protocols for the laboratory analysis 3) understanding hydraulic flows and virus transport in complex wastewater drainage systems and 4) collaborative efforts from government agencies, NGOs, public health units and academia.
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