Implementation of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus to support public health decisions: opportunities and challenges

G Medema, F Been, L Heijnen, S Petterson - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Analysing wastewater can be used to track infectious disease agents that are shed via stool
and urine. Sewage surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested as a tool to determine …

COVID-19 wastewater surveillance in rural communities: comparison of lagoon and pumping station samples

PM D'Aoust, ST Towhid, É Mercier, N Hegazy… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology/wastewater surveillance has been a topic of significant
interest over the last year due to its application in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance to track …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance for public health action

JS McClary-Gutierrez, MC Mattioli… - Emerging infectious …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wastewater surveillance for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) has garnered extensive public attention during the coronavirus disease pandemic as a …

Use of sewage surveillance for COVID-19: a large-scale evidence-based program in Hong Kong

Y Deng, X Zheng, X Xu, H Chui, W Lai… - Environmental …, 2022 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Sewage surveillance, by detecting SARS-CoV-2 virus circulation at the
community level, has the potential to supplement individual surveillance for COVID-19 …

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater: Methods optimization and quality control are crucial for generating reliable public health information

W Ahmed, A Bivins, PM Bertsch, K Bibby… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater through the process of wastewater-
based epidemiology provides an additional surveillance tool, contributing to community …

The first case study of wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

X Xu, X Zheng, S Li, NS Lam, Y Wang, DKW Chu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Early detection and surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) virus are key pre-requisites for the effective control of coronavirus disease (COVID …

A sensitive, simple, and low-cost method for COVID-19 wastewater surveillance at an institutional level

P Liu, M Ibaraki, J VanTassell, K Geith… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus, but it is also detected in a significant proportion of fecal
samples from COVID-19 cases. Recent studies have shown that wastewater surveillance …

Making waves: wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for population-based health management

JR Thompson, YV Nancharaiah, X Gu, WL Lee… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Worldwide, clinical data remain the gold standard for disease surveillance and tracking.
However, such data are limited due to factors such as reporting bias and inability to track …

Regressing SARS-CoV-2 sewage measurements onto COVID-19 burden in the population: a proof-of-concept for quantitative environmental surveillance

I Bar-Or, K Yaniv, M Shagan, E Ozer, M Weil… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an RNA virus, a member
of the coronavirus family of respiratory viruses that includes severe acute respiratory …

Wastewater surveillance could serve as a pandemic early warning system for COVID‐19 and beyond

P Gahlot, KD Alley, S Arora, S Das… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wastewater‐based surveillance can be used as an early warning system to identify COVID‐
19 outbreaks because the viral load can be observed in sewage before it is clinically …