Tracing COVID-19 trails in wastewater: A systematic review of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance with viral variants

A Tiwari, S Adhikari, S Zhang, TB Solomon, A Lipponen… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 associated with varying infectivity,
pathogenicity, diagnosis, and effectiveness against treatments challenged the overall …

Making waves: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an endemic future

F Wu, WL Lee, H Chen, X Gu, F Chandra, F Armas… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has been widely used as a public health tool to
monitor the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 infections in populations during the …

Molecular diagnostic tools applied for assessing microbial water quality

L Paruch - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial water quality is of vital importance for human, animal, and environmental health.
Notably, pathogenically contaminated water can result in serious health problems, such as …

Prevalence and circulation patterns of SARS-CoV-2 variants in European sewage mirror clinical data of 54 European cities

S Agrawal, L Orschler, S Schubert, K Zachmann… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
For community-level monitoring, the European Commission under the EU Sewage Sentinel
System recommends wastewater-based SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. Tracking SARS-CoV-2 …

Wastewater genomic sequencing for SARS-CoV-2 variants surveillance in wastewater-based epidemiology applications

X Xu, Y Deng, J Ding, X Zheng, C Wang, D Wang, L Liu… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been widely used as a complementary
approach to SARS-CoV-2 clinical surveillance. Wastewater genomic sequencing could …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of two different concentration methods for surveillance of human viruses in sewage and their effects on SARS-CoV-2 sequencing

I Girón-Guzmán, A Díaz-Reolid… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) emerged
as a reliable strategy both as a surveillance method and a way to provide an overview of the …

Wastewater surveillance uncovers regional diversity and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants across nine states in the USA

RS Fontenele, Y Yang, EM Driver, A Magge… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a non-invasive and cost-effective approach for
monitoring the spread of a pathogen within a community. WBE has been adopted as one of …

Genetic sequencing detected the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant in wastewater a month prior to the first COVID-19 case in Ahmedabad (India)

M Joshi, M Kumar, V Srivastava, D Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based genomic surveillance can identify a huge majority of variants shed by the
infected individuals within a population, which goes beyond genomic surveillance based on …

Rise and fall of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Rotterdam: Comparison of wastewater and clinical surveillance

RW Izquierdo-Lara, L Heijnen, BBO Munnink… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater (WW) is a promising tool for epidemiological
surveillance, correlating not only viral RNA levels with the infection dynamics within the …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in large and small communities by wastewater monitoring in Alberta, Canada

CRJ Hubert, N Acosta, BJM Waddell… - Emerging Infectious …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 enables early detection and monitoring of the
COVID-19 disease burden in communities and can track specific variants of concern. We …