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 …

Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19: an African perspective

R Street, S Malema, N Mahlangeni, A Mathee - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the importance of access to sufficient
quantities of safe water and sanitation in public health. In the current COVID-19 pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrometeorology and flood pulse dynamics drive diarrheal disease outbreaks and increase vulnerability to climate change in surface-water-dependent …

KA Alexander, AK Heaney, J Shaman - PLoS medicine, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background The impacts of climate change on surface water, waterborne disease, and
human health remain a growing area of concern, particularly in Africa, where diarrheal …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood parasitic infections and gastrointestinal illness in indigenous communities at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

A Roegner, MN Orozco, C Jarquin, W Boegel… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Lake Atitlán has experienced a decline in water quality resulting from cultural eutrophication.
Indigenous Mayans who already face disproportionate health challenges rely directly on the …

Broadening Wastewater Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

KD Alley - Wastewater Surveillance for Covid-19 Management, 2023 - Springer
This chapter makes an argument for strengthening participation in wastewater surveillance
of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. It explains the importance of understanding the sewershed and the …

The complexity of antibiotic resistance dynamics in scarce surface water resources in northern Botswana

LGT Nkwalale - 2020 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
Antibiotic resistance (AR) is widely associated with intensive agricultural systems,
pharmaceutical production, wastewater, and health facilities. However, little research has …

A Qualitative Study of Decentralized Compost Sanitation in Uganda's West Nile Region

AF Price - 2019 - digital.lib.washington.edu
Decentralized compost sanitation represents a potential sustainable sanitation solution that
could limit fecal contamination at the source while also complementing the rural, agricultural …