ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Wastewater pandemic preparedness: Toward an end-to-end pathogen monitoring program.
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- SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance in a central Chinese metropolis: variant responses and correlation with clinical cases.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Wastewater Sequencing Reveals Persistent Circulation and Rising Prevalence of Several Oncogenic Viruses Across Texas.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Wastewater Parvovirus B19 Signal Amid Rising Maternal Cases.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Sequencing-Based Detection of Measles in Wastewater: Texas, January 2025.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Turning analysis into action: opportunities and challenges in implementing wastewater science for public health decision-making.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Characterization of methicillin resistantOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Risk Assessment Among Vulnerable Small Business Owners in El Paso County, Texas.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2024Article
- Sequencing-Based Detection of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Wastewater in Ten Cities.The New England journal of medicine · 2024Article
- EU surveys insights: analytical tools, future directions, and the essential requirement for reference materials in wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2, antimicrobial resistance and beyond.Human genomics · 2024Article
- Comparison of the performance of two targeted metagenomic virus capture probe-based methods using reference control materials and clinical samples.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2024Article
- Wastewater sequencing reveals community and variant dynamics of the collective human virome.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Evaluating the sensitivity of droplet digital PCR for the quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Molecular analysis of public wastewater has great potential as a harbinger for community health and health threats. Long-used to monitor the presence of enteric viruses, in particular polio, recent successes of wastewater as a reliable lead indicator for trends in SARS-CoV-2 levels and hospital admissions has generated optimism and emerging evidence that similar science can be applied to other pathogens of pandemic potential (PPPs), especially respiratory viruses and their variants of concern (VOC). However, there are substantial challenges associated with implementation of this ideal, namely that multiple and distinct fields of inquiry must be bridged and coordinated. These include engineering, molecular sciences, temporal-geospatial analytics, epidemiology and medical, and governmental and public health messaging, all of which present their own caveats. Here, we outline a framework for an integrated, state-wide, end-to-end human pathogen monitoring program using wastewater to track viral PPPs.
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