Utilizing river and wastewater as a SARS-CoV-2 surveillance tool in settings with limited formal sewage systems

KG Barnes, JI Levy, J Gauld, J Rigby… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted health systems globally and robust
surveillance has been critical for pandemic control, however not all countries can currently …

SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in wastewater as a model for monitoring evolution of endemic viruses

M Yousif, S Rachida, S Taukobong, N Ndlovu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As global SARS-CoV-2 burden and testing frequency have decreased, wastewater
surveillance has emerged as a key tool to support clinical surveillance efforts. The aims of …

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 across 40 US states from February to June 2020

F Wu, A Xiao, J Zhang, K Moniz, N Endo, F Armas… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based disease surveillance is a promising approach for monitoring community
outbreaks. Here we describe a nationwide campaign to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in the …

Making waves: Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an endemic future

F Wu, WL Lee, H Chen, X Gu, F Chandra, F Armas… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has been widely used as a public health tool to
monitor the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 infections in populations during the …

SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases

F Wu, J Zhang, A Xiao, X Gu, WL Lee, F Armas… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater surveillance represents a complementary approach to clinical surveillance to
measure the presence and prevalence of emerging infectious diseases like the novel …

The devil is in the details: emerging insights on the relevance of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to public health

SE Hrudey, B Conant - Journal of Water and Health, 2022 - iwaponline.com
The severe health consequences and global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have
necessitated the rapid development of surveillance programs to inform public health …

Time course quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Parisian wastewaters correlates with COVID-19 confirmed cases

S Wurtzer, V Marechal, JM Mouchel, L Moulin - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Since many SARS-CoV-2 carriers are assumed to exhibit no or few non-specific symptoms,
SARS-CoV-2 circulation among human populations may be detected too lately and only …

Detection of SARs-CoV-2 in wastewater, using the existing environmental surveillance network: an epidemiological gateway to an early warning for COVID-19 in …

S Sharif, A Ikram, A Khurshid, M Salman, N Mehmood… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARs-CoV-2 was transmitted
person to person via droplet infections and fecal-oral transmission. This illustrates the …

Detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater and their correlation with circulating variants in the communities

L Li, T Uppal, PD Hartley, A Gorzalski, M Pandori… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater has been highly informative in estimating
the approximate number of infected individuals in the surrounding communities. Recent …

Use of wastewater surveillance for early detection of Alpha and Epsilon SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and estimation of overall COVID-19 infection burden

V Vo, RL Tillett, K Papp, S Shen, R Gu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A decline in diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 is expected to delay the tracking of COVID-
19 variants of concern and interest in the United States. We hypothesize that wastewater …