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… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible
for the coronavirus disease COVID-19, a public health emergency worldwide, and Italy is …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology for early warning of SARS-COV-2 circulation: A pilot study conducted in Sicily, Italy

CM Maida, E Amodio, W Mazzucco, G La Rosa… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is increasing evidence of the use of wastewater-based epidemiology to integrate
conventional monitoring assessing disease symptoms and signs of viruses in a specific …

First detection of SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewaters in Italy

G La Rosa, M Iaconelli, P Mancini, GB Ferraro… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several studies have demonstrated the advantages of environmental surveillance through
the monitoring of sewage for the assessment of viruses circulating in a given community …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular tracing of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy in the first three months of the epidemic

A Lai, A Bergna, S Caucci, N Clementi, I Vicenti… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study is the characterization and genomic tracing by phylogenetic analyses
of 59 new SARS-CoV-2 Italian isolates obtained from patients attending clinical centres in …

A wastewater-based epidemiology tool for COVID-19 surveillance in Portugal

S Monteiro, D Rente, MV Cunha, MC Gomes… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in
wastewater produced interest in its use for sentinel surveillance at a community level and as …

Suppression of COVID-19 outbreak in the municipality of Vo', Italy

E Lavezzo, E Franchin, C Ciavarella… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
On the 21 st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo', a small town near Padua,
died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection 1. This was the first COVID-19 death …

SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater as an early warning indicator for COVID-19 pandemic. Madrid region case study

A Lastra, J Botello, A Pinilla, JI Urrutia, J Canora… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing for more than a year and has changed priorities and
boosted some WBE studies. The aim of this work is to contributed to our knowledge sharing …

Detection of environmental SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA in a high prevalence setting in Spain

IG Fernández‐de‐Mera… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Since March 2020, Spain (along with many other countries) has been severely
affected by the ongoing coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) pandemic caused by the rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Human respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, circulating in the winter season 2019–2020 in Parma, Northern Italy

A Calderaro, F De Conto, M Buttrini, G Piccolo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of respiratory virus
infections, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), during …

[PDF][PDF] SARS-CoV-2 surveillance employing sewage: towards a sentinel system

B Gawlik, S Tavazzi, G Mariani… - … Office of the …, 2021 - publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Evidence is increasing that untreated wastewater is a good indicator of the presence of the
virus in a population. The ability to detect the current SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater is …