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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Monitoring Multiple Sexually Transmitted Pathogens Through Wastewater Surveillance.

Balghsim Alshehri, Olivia N Birch, Justin C Greaves

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Tracking HIV Through Wastewater: Ethical Considerations in Public Health Surveillance.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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  7. Wastewater Surveillance for Group APathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Balghsim AlshehriDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA.
Olivia N BirchDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-6840-5342
Justin C GreavesDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) offers a promising tool for sexually transmitted infection (STI) surveillance, especially in settings where underdiagnosis or social stigma complicates conventional reporting. To assess its utility, we conducted a year-long study examining six STIs,

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Sexually Transmitted DiseasesWastewaterWastewater-Based Epidemiological MonitoringHumansWastewaterchlamydiagonorrheahepatitis C virusherpesHIVSTD/STIsyphiliswastewater-based epidemiology

Identifiers

PMID40559570
PMCPMC12195674

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