Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and COVID-19 transmission risk from environmental matrices and surfaces

F Carraturo, C Del Giudice, M Morelli, V Cerullo… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading around the world,
representing a global pandemic, counting, as of June 5th, 2020, over 6,600,000 confirmed …

Beach tourism in times of COVID-19 pandemic: critical issues, knowledge gaps and research opportunities

S Zielinski, CM Botero - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The strict quarantine measures employed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic have
led the global tourism industry to a complete halt, disrupting the livelihoods of millions. The …

Wastewater-based epidemiology for early detection of viral outbreaks

I Xagoraraki, E O'Brien - Women in water quality: Investigations by …, 2020 - Springer
The immense global burden of infectious disease outbreaks and the need to establish
prediction and prevention systems have been recognized by the World Health Organization …

CrAssphage as an indicator of human-fecal contamination in water environment and virus reduction in wastewater treatment

MA Sabar, R Honda, E Haramoto - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Viral indicators of human-fecal contamination in wastewaters and environmental waters
have been getting much attention in the past decade. Cross-assembly phage (crAssphage) …

Occurrence of viruses in sewage sludge: A systematic review

S Gholipour, MR Ghalhari, M Nikaeen… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Enteric viruses are of great importance in wastewater due to their high excretion from
infected individuals, low removal in wastewater treatment processes, long-time survival in …

[HTML][HTML] Utilization of sewage sludge to manage saline-alkali soil and increase crop production: Is it safe or not?

MYJ Baloch, W Zhang, T Sultana, M Akram… - … Technology & Innovation, 2023 - Elsevier
Saline-alkali soil has become significant problem for global agriculture and food security as
these soils have poor physicochemical conditions and reduce crop production by causing a …

Global public health implications of human exposure to viral contaminated water

AA Lanrewaju, AM Enitan-Folami, S Sabiu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Enteric viruses are common waterborne pathogens found in environmental water bodies
contaminated with either raw or partially treated sewage discharge. Examples of these …

Emerging investigators series: the source and fate of pandemic viruses in the urban water cycle

KR Wigginton, Y Ye, RM Ellenberg - Environmental Science: Water …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Several recent high profile outbreaks such as SARS, MERS, Ebola and avian influenzas
draw attention to the continued risk of a deadly viral pandemic. In general, these enveloped …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal and spatial dynamics of enteric viruses in wastewater and in riverine and estuarine receiving waters

DM Cooper, JE McDonald, SK Malham… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Enteric viruses represent a global public health threat and are implicated in numerous
foodborne and waterborne disease outbreaks. Nonetheless, relatively little is known of their …

Solar disinfection is an augmentable, in situ-generated photo-Fenton reaction—Part 2: A review of the applications for drinking water and wastewater disinfection

S Giannakis, MIP López, D Spuhler, JAS Pérez… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2016 - Elsevier
This is the second part of a comprehensive review article about photo-Fenton reaction at
near-neutral pH used for water and wastewater disinfection. In this part, a critical revision of …