ReviewEpidemics2024
Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance and beyond: A survey.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Methodological Approaches to Dengue Virus Detection in Wastewater: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Positivity Rate.Viruses · 2026Pooled it
- A Wastewater-based Modeling Framework for Inferring Norovirus Transmission Dynamics.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
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- Wastewater-Based Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for Early Warning of COVID-19 Infection Dynamics.Viruses · 2026Article
- Advances in Carbon Dot-Based Optical (Bio)Sensors for Contaminant Detection in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Integrated framework to study genomic surveillance of selective sweeps in multivariants dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Respiratory Viruses in the SARS-CoV-2 Post-Pandemic Period in Mexico.Viruses · 2026Article
- Surveillance of Japanese encephalitis virus in piggery effluent and environmental samples: a complementary tool for outbreak detection.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Wastewater Measures of SARS-CoV-2 Accurately Predict Frequency of Symptomatic Infections in the Community.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Observational
- COVID-19 Transmission Potential and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Maine During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Post-recovery viral shedding shapes wastewater-based epidemiological inferences.Communications medicine · 2025Article
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- Understanding Nash epidemics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Molecular epidemiology of aquatic environments: challenges from sampling to implementation of surveillance programs.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Impact of Sample Storage Time and Temperature on the Stability of Respiratory Viruses and Enteric Viruses in Wastewater.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Adaptive human behaviour modulates the impact of immune life history and vaccination on long-term epidemic dynamics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
The pandemic of COVID-19 has imposed tremendous pressure on public health systems and social economic ecosystems over the past years. To alleviate its social impact, it is important to proactively track the prevalence of COVID-19 within communities. The traditional way to estimate the disease prevalence is to estimate from reported clinical test data or surveys. However, the coverage of clinical tests is often limited and the tests can be labor-intensive, requires reliable and timely results, and consistent diagnostic and reporting criteria. Recent studies revealed that patients who are diagnosed with COVID-19 often undergo fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 virus into wastewater, which makes wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance a promising approach to complement traditional clinical testing. In this paper, we survey the existing literature regarding wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance and summarize the current advances in the area. Specifically, we have covered the key aspects of wastewater sampling, sample testing, and presented a comprehensive and organized summary of wastewater data analytical methods. Finally, we provide the open challenges on current wastewater-based COVID-19 surveillance studies, aiming to encourage new ideas to advance the development of effective wastewater-based surveillance systems for general infectious diseases.
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