Monkeypox viral nucleic acids detected using both DNA and RNA extraction workflows

ME Sharkey, KM Babler, BS Shukla, SM Abelson… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Molecular methods have been used to detect human pathogens in wastewater with
sampling typically performed at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and upstream …

First detection of the Monkeypox virus using wastewater-based surveillance in Miami-Dade County

ME Sharkey, KM Babler, SM Abelson, B Alsuliman… - 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Measurements of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA
from wastewater have been utilized for evaluating the prevalence of COVID-19 illness within …

[HTML][HTML] Monkeypox outbreak: Wastewater and environmental surveillance perspective

A Tiwari, S Adhikari, D Kaya, MA Islam, B Malla… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monkeypox disease (MPXD), a viral disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), is an
emerging zoonotic disease endemic in some countries of Central and Western Africa but …

Monitoring of monkeypox viral DNA in Prague wastewater

J Bartáčková, V Kouba, A Dostálková… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monkeypox virus (Mpxv) is a dsDNA virus that has become a global concern for human
health in 2022. As both infected people and non-human hosts can shed the virus from their …

[HTML][HTML] Spanish wastewater reveals the current spread of Monkeypox virus

I Girón-Guzmán, A Díaz-Reolid, P Truchado… - Water research, 2023 - Elsevier
Besides nasopharyngeal swabs, monkeypox virus (MPXV) DNA has been detected in a
variety of samples such as saliva, semen, urine and fecal samples. Using the environmental …

Detection of monkeypox viral DNA in a routine wastewater monitoring program

MK Wolfe, D Duong, B Hughes, V Chan-Herur… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Wastewater represents a composite biological sample from the entire contributing
population. People infected with monkeypox excrete monkeypox virus DNA via skin lesions …

Enhanced detection of mpox virus in wastewater using a pre-amplification approach: A pilot study informing population-level monitoring of low-titer pathogens

DA Bowes, KB Henke, EM Driver, ME Newell… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
A recent outbreak of the mpox virus (MPXV) occurred in non-endemic regions of the world
beginning in May 2022. Pathogen surveillance systems faced pressure to quickly establish …

A review on mpox (monkeypox) virus shedding in wastewater and its persistence evaluation in environmental samples

A Atoui, F Jourdain, D Mouly, C Cordevant… - Case Studies in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since May 2022, an outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) has been spreading
in non-endemic countries and this disease is caused by a mpox virus (MPXV) belonging to …

[HTML][HTML] Monkeypox virus in wastewater samples from Santiago metropolitan region, Chile

M Ampuero, C Martínez-Valdebenito… - Emerging Infectious …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sewage surveillance provides useful epidemiologic and public health information on viral
infections at the population level. We detected monkeypox virus DNA from sewage samples …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple traces of monkeypox detected in non-sewered wastewater with sparse sampling from a densely populated metropolitan area in Asia

DL Wannigama, M Amarasiri, P Hongsing… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The monkeypox virus is excreted in the feces of infected individuals. Therefore, there is an
interest in using viral load detection in wastewater for sentinel early surveillance at a …