Combating antibiotic resistance using wastewater surveillance: Significance, applications, challenges, and future directions

S Gholipour, Z Shamsizadeh, D Halabowski… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The global increase of antibiotic resistance (AR) and resistant infections call for effective
surveillance methods for understanding and mitigating (re)-emerging public health risks …

Wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses: bibliometric tracking of the last decade and emerging research directions

H Waseem, R Abid, J Ali, CJ Oswald, KA Gilbride - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted an overwhelming surge in research investigating
different aspects of the disease and its causative agent. In this study, we aim to discern …

The role of wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2 in developing countries: Cumulative evidence from South Africa supports sentinel site surveillance to …

C Iwu-Jaja, NL Ndlovu, S Rachida, M Yousif… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The uptake of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for SARS-CoV-2 as a complementary
tool for monitoring population-level epidemiological features of the COVID-19 pandemic in …

National-scale antimicrobial resistance surveillance in wastewater: A comparative analysis of HT qPCR and metagenomic approaches

ME Knight, G Webster, WB Perry, A Baldwin, L Rushton… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater serves as an important reservoir of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and its
surveillance can provide insights into population-level trends in AMR to inform public health …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based surveillance is an efficient monitoring tool for tracking influenza A in the community

KM Lehto, A Länsivaara, R Hyder, O Luomala… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Around the world, influenza A virus has caused severe pandemics, and the risk of future
pandemics remains high. Currently, influenza A virus surveillance is based on the clinical …

Sampling considerations for wastewater surveillance of antibiotic resistance in fecal bacteria

PMC Huijbers, J Bobis Camacho, M Hutinel… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wastewaters can be analyzed to generate population-level data for public health
surveillance, such as antibiotic resistance monitoring. To provide representative data for the …

Nursing home wastewater surveillance for early warning of SARS-CoV-2-positive occupants—Insights from a pilot project at 8 facilities

SD Gamage, C Jinadatha, V Rizzo Jr… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 has been used widely in the United
States for indication of community incidence during the COVID-19 pandemic, but less is …

Analyzing community wastewater in sub-sewersheds for the small-scale detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants in a German metropolitan area

D Schmiege, I Kraiselburd, T Haselhoff… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 proved useful, including for identifying the local
appearance of newly identified virus variants. Previous studies focused on wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 an extensive monitoring of an Italian full-scale wastewater treatment plant

A Cosenza, CM Maida, M Vullo… - Journal of Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology was adopted to monitor SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Caltanissetta
(Sicily, Italy) full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The sampling campaign lasted …

Towards a Precision Model for Environmental Public Health: Wastewater-based Epidemiology to Assess Population-level Exposures and Related Diseases

DA Bowes - Current Epidemiology Reports, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Impacts from climate change and use of toxic chemicals that
contaminate our environment continue to pose a threat to the health of human populations …