ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2023
Economic Evaluation of Wastewater Surveillance Combined with Clinical COVID-19 Screening Tests, Japan.
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- Cost-effectiveness of wastewater-based environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Blantyre, Malawi and Kathmandu, Nepal: A model-based study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- A Narrative Review of High Throughput Wastewater Sample Processing for Infectious Disease Surveillance: Challenges, Progress, and Future Opportunities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Wastewater Surveillance to Confirm Differences in Influenza A Infection between Michigan, USA, and Ontario, Canada, September 2022-March 2023.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Evaluation of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in a prison population: a mixed-methods approach.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 in shelters: A creative strategy for a complex setting.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review on the Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance for COVID-19.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed substantial burdens on the global society. To find an optimal combination of wastewater surveillance and clinical testing for tracking COVID-19, we evaluated the economic efficiency of hypothetical screening options at a single facility in Japan. To conduct cost-benefit analyses, we developed standard decision models in which we assumed model parameters from literature and primary data, such as screening policies used at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Village in 2021. We compared hypothetical 2-step screening options that used clinical PCR to diagnose COVID-19 after a positive result from primary screening using antigen tests (option 1) or wastewater surveillance (option 2). Our simulation results indicated that option 2 likely would be economically more justifiable than option 1, particularly at lower incidence levels. Our findings could help justify and promote the use of wastewater surveillance as a primary screening at a facility level for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
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