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ReviewISME communications2022

The one health perspective to improve environmental surveillance of zoonotic viruses: lessons from COVID-19 and outlook beyond.

Mats Leifels, Omar Khalilur Rahman, I-Ching Sam, Dan Cheng, Feng Jun Desmond Chua, Dhiraj Nainani, Se Yeon Kim, Wei Jie Ng, Wee Chiew Kwok, Kwanrawee Sirikanchana and 3 more

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Review in ISME communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  20. One Health policy for combatting African trypanocide resistance.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Mats Leifels *Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Omar Khalilur Rahman *Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-2437-7270
I-Ching SamDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Dan ChengSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Feng Jun Desmond ChuaSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Dhiraj NainaniSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-4216-3951
Se Yeon KimSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Wei Jie NgSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Wee Chiew KwokSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Kwanrawee SirikanchanaResearch Laboratory of Biotechnology, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0001-7273-4060
Stefan WuertzSingapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-3415-6199
Janelle Thompson *Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Yoke Fun Chan *Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0001-7089-0510

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human population has doubled in the last 50 years from about 3.7 billion to approximately 7.8 billion. With this rapid expansion, more people live in close contact with wildlife, livestock, and pets, which in turn creates increasing opportunities for zoonotic diseases to pass between animals and people. At present an estimated 75% of all emerging virus-associated infectious diseases possess a zoonotic origin, and outbreaks of Zika, Ebola and COVID-19 in the past decade showed their huge disruptive potential on the global economy. Here, we describe how One Health inspired environmental surveillance campaigns have emerged as the preferred tools to monitor human-adjacent environments for known and yet to be discovered infectious diseases, and how they can complement classical clinical diagnostics. We highlight the importance of environmental factors concerning interactions between animals, pathogens and/or humans that drive the emergence of zoonoses, and the methodologies currently proposed to monitor them-the surveillance of wastewater, for example, was identified as one of the main tools to assess the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by public health professionals and policy makers during the COVID-19 pandemic. One-Health driven approaches that facilitate surveillance, thus harbour the potential of preparing humanity for future pandemics caused by aetiological agents with environmental reservoirs. Via the example of COVID-19 and other viral diseases, we propose that wastewater surveillance is a useful complement to clinical diagnosis as it is centralized, robust, cost-effective, and relatively easy to implement.

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BiomarkersEnvironmental sciencesInfectious diseasesMolecular biology

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PMID36338866
PMCPMC9618154

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