A review on presence, survival, disinfection/removal methods of coronavirus in wastewater and progress of wastewater-based epidemiology

P Mandal, AK Gupta, BK Dubey - Journal of environmental chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused the global
pandemic coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19). The outbreak of COVID-19 as Public …

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 …

Genome sequencing of sewage detects regionally prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants

A Crits-Christoph, RS Kantor, MR Olm, ON Whitney… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viral genome sequencing has guided our understanding of the spread and extent of genetic
diversity of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes are …

Detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and treated effluents: Surveillance of COVID-19 epidemic in the United Arab Emirates

SW Hasan, Y Ibrahim, M Daou, H Kannout… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Testing SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in wastewater has recently emerged as a method of
tracking the prevalence of the virus and an early-warning tool for predicting outbreaks in the …

Artificial neural network-based estimation of COVID-19 case numbers and effective reproduction rate using wastewater-based epidemiology

G Jiang, J Wu, J Weidhaas, X Li, Y Chen, J Mueller, J Li… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
As a cost-effective and objective population-wide surveillance tool, wastewater-based
epidemiology (WBE) has been widely implemented worldwide to monitor the severe acute …

Catching a resurgence: Increase in SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA identified in wastewater 48 h before COVID-19 clinical tests and 96 h before hospitalizations

PM D'Aoust, TE Graber, E Mercier, D Montpetit… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Curtailing the Spring 2020 COVID-19 surge required sweeping and stringent interventions
by governments across the world. Wastewater-based COVID-19 epidemiology programs …

Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area

HD Greenwald, LC Kennedy, A Hinkle, ON Whitney… - Water research X, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) RNA can be integrated with COVID-19 case data to inform timely pandemic response …

Monitoring changes in COVID-19 infection using wastewater-based epidemiology: A South African perspective

L Pillay, ID Amoah, N Deepnarain, K Pillay… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Monitoring of COVID-19 infections within communities via wastewater-based epidemiology
could provide a cost-effective alternative to clinical testing. This approach, however, still …

SARS-CoV-2 viral load peaks prior to symptom onset: a systematic review and individual-pooled analysis of coronavirus viral load from 66 studies

AE Benefield, LA Skrip, A Clement, RA Althouse… - medrxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background Since the emergence of COVID-19, tens of millions of people have been
infected, and the global death toll approached 1 million by September 2020. Understanding …

On forecasting the community-level COVID-19 cases from the concentration of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater

Y Cao, R Francis - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The building of an effective wastewater-based epidemiological model that can translate
SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in wastewater to the prevalence of virus shedders within a …