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Evaluating Population Normalization Methods Using Chemical Data for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Insights from a Site-Specific Case Study.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Methodological Approaches to SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance.Viruses · 2026Pooled it
- The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the temporal dynamics of antimicrobial resistance markers and bacterial community across urban wastewater treatment plants.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2026Article
- Assessing long-term specific pollutant loads in municipal wastewater plants influent using monitoring data: A case study from Latvia.Journal of water and health · 2026Article
- Wastewater-Based Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for Early Warning of COVID-19 Infection Dynamics.Viruses · 2026Article
- "Navigating Healthy Waters": monitoring ship wastewater as a key defense against infectious diseases-a pilot study on a Mediterranean seaport.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Temporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater and population infection trends in Mexico City.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been widely employed to track the spread of human pathogens; however, correlating wastewater data with clinical surveillance remains challenging due to population variability and environmental factors affecting wastewater composition. This study evaluated different SARS-CoV-2 normalization methods, comparing static population estimates with dynamic normalization based on common physicochemical parameters: chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD
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