Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in wastewater: an assessment of nine computational tools using simulated genomic data

SG Sutcliffe, SA Kraemer, I Ellmen… - Microbial …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) is an important epidemiological and public health
tool for tracking pathogens across the scale of a building, neighbourhood, city, or region …

High diversity of human non-polio enterovirus serotypes identified in contaminated water in Nigeria

M Majumdar, D Klapsa, T Wilton, E Bujaki… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human enteroviruses (EVs) are highly prevalent in sewage and have been associated with
human diseases with complications leading to severe neurological syndromes. We have …

Wastewater Surveillance in Europe for Non-Polio Enteroviruses and Beyond

L Bubba, KSM Benschop, S Blomqvist, E Duizer… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wastewater surveillance (WWS) was developed in the early 1960s for the detection of
poliovirus (PV) circulation in the population. It has been used to monitor several pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] Final frontiers of the polio eradication endgame

AS Bandyopadhyay, GR Macklin - Current Opinion in Infectious …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Final frontiers of the polio eradication endgame : Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases Final
frontiers of the polio eradication endgame : Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases Log in or …

Time taken to detect and respond to polio outbreaks in Africa and the potential impact of direct molecular detection and nanopore sequencing

AG Shaw, LV Cooper, N Gumede… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Detection of poliovirus outbreaks relies on a complex laboratory algorithm of
cell-culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and sequencing to distinguish wild-type and …

Longitudinal and long-term wastewater surveillance for COVID-19: infection dynamics and zoning of urban community

A Tharak, H Kopperi, M Hemalatha, U Kiran… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is emerging as a potential approach to study the
infection dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 at a community level. Periodic sewage surveillance can …

Near-source passive sampling for monitoring viral outbreaks within a university residential setting

JL Kevill, L Adwan, A Garcia-Delgado… - Epidemiology & …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has proven to be a powerful tool for the population-
level monitoring of pathogens, particularly severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Asymptomatic immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived poliovirus infections in two UK children

A Singanayagam, D Klapsa, S Burton-Fanning… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing detections of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) globally, including in countries
previously declared polio free, is a public health emergency of international concern …

Evaluation of Direct Detection Protocols for Poliovirus from Stool Samples of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Patients

MK Ueno, K Kitamura, Y Nishimura, M Arita - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polio surveillance in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has been conducted with virus
isolation from stool samples of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases. Under the current biorisk …

Dynamic changes in polioviruses identified by environmental surveillance in Guangzhou, 2009–2021

M Chen, Y Zhang, W Zhang, S Huang… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polio cases can be missed by acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) case surveillance alone,
emphasizing the importance of environmental surveillance (ES). In this study, to investigate …