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 - … opinion in environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
… The focus of this review is on the strength of evidence, … communicable disease surveillance
is the systematic collection, … for population surveillance is to obtain a representative sample of …

SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in northern Italy since December 2019: Evidence from environmental monitoring

G La Rosa, P Mancini, GB Ferraro, C Veneri… - … of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
… To test this hypothesis, we analysed sewage samples collected between October 2019 and
February 2020 in Northern Italy in the framework of projects on enteric viruses, and stored in …

[HTML][HTML] First environmental surveillance for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and river water in Japan

E Haramoto, B Malla, O Thakali, M Kitajima - … of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
… discharge to the environment; however, the final effluent samples were not collected in this
study. Samples were collected in sterilized 1-L plastic bottles taking precautionary measures …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus in water environments: Occurrence, persistence and concentration methods-A scoping review

G La Rosa, L Bonadonna, L Lucentini, S Kenmoe… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
… a low stability in the environment and is very sensitive to oxidants, like … examined, to strengthen
their monitoring in water media. … , and Web Science Core Collection with no restriction for …

[HTML][HTML] Current practices in UAS-based environmental monitoring

G Tmušić, S Manfreda, H Aasen, MR James… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
… by the most frequent survey case that will be undertaken. … Field data sampling and collection
depends largely on the … , so instead of generalizing collection strategies, we provide a …

[HTML][HTML] 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
methods from sewage samples (Table 1). These methods were validated using sewage
samples collected … CoV-2 was used to test the efficiency of the concentration methods on viral …

Longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on high-touch surfaces in a community setting

AP Harvey, ER Fuhrmeister, ME Cantrell… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… During full-scale sampling, we collected 33 samples and one field blank per week. The
field blank consisted of opening a new swab and placing it in PBS in the same manner as the …

[HTML][HTML] Early-pandemic wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Nevada: Methodology, occurrence, and incidence/prevalence considerations

D Gerrity, K Papp, M Stoker, A Sims, W Frehner - Water research X, 2021 - Elsevier
… But with respect to environmental applications, much of the … optimized sample collection,
processing, and analysis methods … until that is addressed and more peer-reviewed studies are …

Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

T Cordier, L Alonso‐Sáez… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… By taking a general overview, without narrowing our … , this paper aims to compare, review
and discuss the strengths and … limitations mainly stem from the fact that the methods sample

[HTML][HTML] Future perspectives of wastewater-based epidemiology: monitoring infectious disease spread and resistance to the community level

N Sims, B Kasprzyk-Hordern - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
… considerations, samples collected must be used for specific … A new surveillance technique
utilising water fingerprinting is … of both public and environmental health status in real-time. …