[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] Comparative analysis of Adsorption-Extraction (AE) and Nanotrap® Magnetic Virus Particles (NMVP) workflows for the recovery of endogenous enveloped …

W Ahmed, A Bivins, A Korajkic, S Metcalfe… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, two virus concentration methods, namely Adsorption-Extraction (AE) and
Nanotrap® Magnetic Virus Particles (NMVP) along with commercially available extraction …

Metagenomics in the fight against zoonotic viral infections: A focus on SARS-CoV-2 analogues

AK Wani, C Chopra, DS Dhanjal, N Akhtar… - Journal of Virological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Zoonotic viral infections continue to pose significant threats to global public health, as
highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The emergence …

[HTML][HTML] Association between global monkeypox cases and meteorological factors

MA Islam, S Sangkham, A Tiwari, M Vadiati… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The emergence of an outbreak of Monkeypox disease (MPXD) is caused by a contagious
zoonotic Monkeypox virus (MPXV) that has spread globally. Yet, there is no study …

[HTML][HTML] Real-time evaluation of signal accuracy in wastewater surveillance of pathogens with high rates of mutation

O Thakali, É Mercier, W Eid, M Wellman… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Wastewater surveillance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) commonly applies
reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) to quantify severe …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater using targeted amplicon sequencing during a low COVID-19 prevalence period in Japan

R Iwamoto, K Yamaguchi, K Katayama, H Ando… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology is expected to be able to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants at
an early stage via next-generation sequencing. In the present study, we developed a highly …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting a free viral fraction enhances the early alert potential of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: a methods comparison spanning the transition …

L Zhao, Q Geng, R Corchis-Scott, RM McKay… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Wastewater surveillance has proven to be a valuable approach to monitoring
the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Surveillance of omicron variants through wastewater epidemiology: Latest developments in environmental monitoring of pandemic

V Soni, S Paital, P Raizada, T Ahamad… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
WBE has been a monitoring system that can give purposeful and inclusive real-time
assessments of civic society as well as environmental health. This concept review …

[HTML][HTML] Whole genome sequence of Vibrio cholerae NB-183 isolated from freshwater in Ontario, Canada harbors a unique gene repertoire

OU Lawal, N Bryan, M Soni, Y Chen, M Precious… - BMC Genomic …, 2024 - Springer
Objective Vibrio cholerae is an enteric pathogen that poses a significant threat to global
health. It causes severe dehydrating diarrheal disease cholera in humans. V. cholerae could …

Diminished Neutralization Capacity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 1 in Donor Plasma Collected from January to March 2021

YCJ Lin, DH Evans, NF Robbins, G Orjuela… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The 50% plaque reduction neutralization assay (PRNT50) has been previously used to
assess the neutralization capacity of donor plasma against wild-type and variant of concern …