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ArticleEnvironment international2023

Wastewater-based prediction of COVID-19 cases using a highly sensitive SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection method combined with mathematical modeling.

Hiroki Ando, Michio Murakami, Warish Ahmed, Ryo Iwamoto, Satoshi Okabe, Masaaki Kitajima

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Article in Environment international, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  2. Prospective use of wastewater surveillance for early detection of enterovirus D68 in community outbreaks among children, Niigata City, Japan, 2024.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Hiroki AndoDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13 West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan.
Michio MurakamiCenter for Infectious Disease Education and Research, Osaka University, 2-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Warish AhmedCSIRO Environment, Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, QLD 4102, Australia.
Ryo IwamotoShionogi & Co. Ltd, 1-8, Doshomachi 3-Chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 541-0045, Japan; AdvanSentinel Inc, 1-8 Doshomachi 3-Chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Osaka 541-0045, Japan.
Satoshi OkabeDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13 West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan.
Masaaki KitajimaDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13 West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan. Electronic address: mkitajima@eng.hokudai.ac.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has the potential to predict COVID-19 cases; however, reliable methods for tracking SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations (C

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COVID-19RNA, ViralHumansModels, TheoreticalSARS-CoV-2WastewaterRNA, ViralWastewaterCOVID-19EPISENS-MMathematical modelQuantification methodSARS-CoV-2Wastewater-based epidemiology

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PMID36867995
PMCPMC9824953

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