[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity and evolutionary convergence of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected via wastewater sequencing

DA Gregory, M Trujillo, C Rushford, A Flury… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an effective way of tracking the appearance and
spread of SARS-COV-2 lineages through communities. Beginning in early 2021, we …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling accurate and early detection of recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater

N Sapoval, Y Liu, EG Lou, L Hopkins, KB Ensor… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As clinical testing declines, wastewater monitoring can provide crucial surveillance on the
emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variant of concerns (VoCs) in communities. In this paper we …

Spatial and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 diversity circulating in wastewater

A Pérez-Cataluña, Á Chiner-Oms, E Cuevas-Ferrando… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has proven to be an effective tool for
epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 during the current COVID-19 pandemic …

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 …

Research needs for optimising wastewater-based epidemiology monitoring for public health protection

K Robins, AFC Leonard, K Farkas… - Journal of Water and …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an unobtrusive method used to observe patterns
in illicit drug use, poliovirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS …

Metagenomics of wastewater influent from wastewater treatment facilities across Ontario in the era of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

OU Lawal, L Zhang, VR Parreira… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
We report metagenomic sequencing analyses of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA in composite wastewater influent from 10 regions in …

Mobilome-driven segregation of the resistome in biological wastewater treatment

L de Nies, SB Busi, BJ Kunath, P May, P Wilmes - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Biological wastewater treatment plants (BWWTP) are considered to be hotspots for the
evolution and subsequent spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Mobile genetic …

MixviR: an R package for exploring variation associated with genomic sequence data from environmental SARS-CoV-2 and other mixed microbial samples

MG Sovic, F Savona, Z Bohrerova… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)/coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted an important role for efficient surveillance of …

[HTML][HTML] Crykey: rapid identification of SARS-CoV-2 cryptic mutations in wastewater

Y Liu, N Sapoval, P Gallego-García, L Tomás… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 provides early warnings of emerging variants of
concerns and can be used to screen for novel cryptic linked-read mutations, which are co …