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ReviewJournal of water and health2026

From plant pathogen to public health tool: A review of tobamoviruses and their role in wastewater & environmental surveillance.

Patrick M D'Aoust, Elisabeth Mercier, Tram B Nguyen, Shen Wan, Chandler H Wong, Nada Hegazy, Elizabeth M Renouf, Tyson E Graber, Robert Delatolla

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Review in Journal of water and health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Patrick M D'AoustDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7301-7378
Elisabeth MercierDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5953-2595
Tram B NguyenDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0544-4052
Shen WanDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0482-155X
Chandler H WongDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9930-0623
Nada HegazyDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4602-4505
Elizabeth M RenoufDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9777-0172
Tyson E GraberChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5337-3404
Robert DelatollaDepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada E-mail: robert.delatolla@uottawa.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5832-8637

Funding

CIHRNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alliance ALLRP 577050-22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the pandemic, interest in Wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) has expanded rapidly, alongside advances in PCR-based detection and the need for reliable normalization strategies. One widely adopted approach to quantification in WES involves normalizing pathogen measurements using human-associated fecal biomarkers such as tobamoviruses. While pepper mild mottle virus and tomato brown rugose fruit virus have been extensively studied and utilized in hundreds of WES studies, the broader

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Environmental MonitoringPublic HealthTobamovirusWastewaterFecesHumansWastewaterfecal biomarkertobamoviruseswastewater-based epidemiologywastewater environmental surveillance

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PMID42378419

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