Occurrence of multiple respiratory viruses in wastewater in Queensland, Australia: potential for community disease surveillance

W Ahmed, A Bivins, M Stephens, S Metcalfe… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The early warning and tracking of COVID-19 prevalence in the community provided by
wastewater surveillance has highlighted its potential for much broader viral disease …

Occurrence of various viruses and recent evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater systems

W Ali, H Zhang, Z Wang, C Chang, A Javed… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses are omnipresent and persistent in wastewater, which poses a risk to human health.
In this review, we summarise the different qualitative and quantitative methods for virus …

Cross-comparison of human wastewater-associated molecular markers in relation to fecal indicator bacteria and enteric viruses in recreational beach waters

B Hughes, DJ Beale, PG Dennis, S Cook… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Detection of human wastewater contamination in recreational waters is of critical importance
to regulators due to the risks posed to public health. To identify such risks, human …

CrAssphage as an indicator of human-fecal contamination in water environment and virus reduction in wastewater treatment

MA Sabar, R Honda, E Haramoto - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Viral indicators of human-fecal contamination in wastewaters and environmental waters
have been getting much attention in the past decade. Cross-assembly phage (crAssphage) …

Pepper mild mottle virus: a plant pathogen with a greater purpose in (waste) water treatment development and public health management

EM Symonds, KH Nguyen, VJ Harwood, M Breitbart - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
An enteric virus surrogate and reliable domestic wastewater tracer is needed to manage
microbial quality of food and water as (waste) water reuse becomes more prevalent in …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms

J Greaves, D Stone, Z Wu, K Bibby - Water Research X, 2020 - Elsevier
Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) are typically used to monitor microbial water quality but are
poor representatives of viruses due to different environmental fate. Viral fecal indicators …

Pepper mild mottle virus: agricultural menace turned effective tool for microbial water quality monitoring and assessing (waste) water treatment technologies

EM Symonds, K Rosario, M Breitbart - PLoS pathogens, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Domestic wastewater pollution in environmental waters or water reuse supplies represents a
threat to public health because of high concentrations of diverse pathogens associated with …

Wastewater-based epidemiology for early detection of viral outbreaks

I Xagoraraki, E O'Brien - Women in water quality: Investigations by …, 2020 - Springer
The immense global burden of infectious disease outbreaks and the need to establish
prediction and prevention systems have been recognized by the World Health Organization …

Intraday variability of indicator and pathogenic viruses in 1-h and 24-h composite wastewater samples: implications for wastewater-based epidemiology

W Ahmed, A Bivins, PM Bertsch, K Bibby… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
We monitored the concentration of indicator viruses crAssphage and pepper mild mottle
virus (PMMoV) and human pathogen adenovirus (HAdV) in influent from a wastewater …

Assessing the diversity and specificity of two freshwater viral communities through metagenomics

S Roux, F Enault, A Robin, V Ravet, S Personnic… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Transitions between saline and fresh waters have been shown to be infrequent for
microorganisms. Based on host-specific interactions, the presence of specific clades among …