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 …

Viable SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant detected in aerosols in a residential setting with a self-isolating college student with COVID-19

WB Vass, JA Lednicky, SN Shankar, ZH Fan… - Journal of aerosol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The B. 1.617. 2 (Delta) variant of SARS-CoV-2 emerged in India in October of 2020
and spread widely to over 145 countries, comprising over 99% of genome sequence …

Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Prague wastewater determined by nanopore-based sequencing

A Dostálková, K Zdeňková, J Bartáčková, E Čermáková… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The early detection of upcoming disease outbreaks is essential to avoid both health and
economic damage. The last four years of COVID-19 pandemic have proven wastewater …

Understanding the efficacy of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in two diverse communities

MT Flood, J Sharp, J Bruggink, M Cormier, B Gomes… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based surveillance has been shown to be a
useful tool for monitoring the spread of disease in communities and the emergence of new …

Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June …

X Bertels, S Hanoteaux, R Janssens, H Maloux… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been implemented to monitor
surges of COVID-19. Yet, multiple factors impede the usefulness of WBE and quantitative …

Critical Needs for Integrated Surveillance: Wastewater-Based and Clinical Epidemiology in Evolving Scenarios with Lessons Learned from SARS-CoV-2

A Carducci, I Federigi, G Lauretani, S Muzio… - Food and Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and clinical
surveillance have been used as tools for analyzing the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in the …

Retrospective analysis of wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in residences on a large college campus: relationships between wastewater outcomes and …

AL Rainey, K Buschang, A O'Connor, D Love… - Acs Es&T …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been utilized for outbreak monitoring and
response efforts in university settings during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Assessment of a mass balance equation for estimating community-level prevalence of COVID-19 using wastewater-based epidemiology in a mid-sized city

AL Rainey, JC Loeb, SE Robinson, P Davis, S Liang… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable epidemiologic tool to
detect the presence of pathogens and track disease trends within a community. WBE …

Dynamic SARS-CoV-2 surveillance model combining seroprevalence and wastewater concentrations for post-vaccine disease burden estimates

RH Holm, GA Rempala, B Choi, JM Brick… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Despite wide scale assessments, it remains unclear how large-scale severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination affected the …

From pandemic to endemic: Divergence of COVID-19 positive-tests and hospitalization numbers from SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in wastewater of Rochester, Minnesota

R Majumdar, B Taye, C Bjornberg, M Giljork, D Lynch… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Traditionally, public health surveillance relied on individual-level data but recently
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for the detection of infectious diseases including …