Wastewater-based surveillance as a tool for public health action: SARS-CoV-2 and beyond

MD Parkins, BE Lee, N Acosta, M Bautista… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has undergone dramatic advancement in the context
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The power and potential of this …

Coordinated global cessation of oral poliovirus vaccine use: Options and potential consequences

DA Kalkowska, SGF Wassilak, E Wiesen… - Risk …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the very low, but nonzero, paralysis risks associated with the use of oral poliovirus
vaccine (OPV), eradicating poliomyelitis requires ending all OPV use globally. The Global …

Modeling poliovirus transmission and responses in New York State

KM Thompson, DA Kalkowska, JA Routh… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background In July 2022, New York State (NYS) reported a case of paralytic polio
in an unvaccinated young adult, and subsequent wastewater surveillance confirmed …

Worst‐case scenarios: Modeling uncontrolled type 2 polio transmission

DA Kalkowska, E Wiesen, SGF Wassilak… - Risk …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In May 2016, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) coordinated the
cessation of all use of type 2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV2), except for emergency outbreak …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a post-pandemic future for global pathogen genome sequencing

JT Ladner, JW Sahl - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Pathogen genome sequencing has become a routine part of our response to active
outbreaks of infectious disease and should be an important part of our preparations for …

Threat of resurgence or hope for global eradication of poliovirus?

CY Kim, B Piamonte, R Allen… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Threat of resurgence or hope for global eradication of polio... : Current Opinion in Neurology
Threat of resurgence or hope for global eradication of poliovirus? : Current Opinion in …

The detection of periodic reemergence events of SARS-CoV-2 Delta strain in communities dominated by Omicron

CE Westcott, KJ Sokoloski, EC Rouchka, JH Chariker… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite entering an endemic phase, SARS-CoV-2 remains a significant burden to public
health across the global community. Wastewater sampling has consistently proven utility to …

Environmental surveillance detected type 3 vaccine-derived polioviruses in increasing frequency at multiple sites prior to detection of a poliomyelitis case

M Weil, D Sofer, LM Shulman, L Weiss, N Levi… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Israel conducts routine environmental (15 sites) and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
surveillance for poliovirus. During September 2021, increasing numbers of wastewater …

Not a waste: Wastewater surveillance to enhance public health

A Gitter, J Oghuan, AR Godbole… - Frontiers in Chemical …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Domestic wastewater, when collected and evaluated appropriately, can provide valuable
health-related information for a community. As a relatively unbiased and non-invasive …

Modeling undetected poliovirus circulation following the 2022 outbreak in the United States

DA Kalkowska, K Badizadegan, JA Routh… - Expert Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background New York State (NYS) reported a polio case (June 2022) and
outbreak of imported type 2 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2)(last positive …