Wastewater surveillance could serve as a pandemic early warning system for COVID‐19 and beyond

P Gahlot, KD Alley, S Arora, S Das… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wastewater‐based surveillance can be used as an early warning system to identify COVID‐
19 outbreaks because the viral load can be observed in sewage before it is clinically …

Detection of SARs-CoV-2 in wastewater using the existing environmental surveillance network: a potential supplementary system for monitoring COVID-19 …

S Sharif, A Ikram, A Khurshid, M Salman, N Mehmood… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is caused by SARs-CoV-2. The virus is transmitted from
person to person through droplet infections ie when infected person is in close contact with …

Making waves: wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for population-based health management

JR Thompson, YV Nancharaiah, X Gu, WL Lee… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Worldwide, clinical data remain the gold standard for disease surveillance and tracking.
However, such data are limited due to factors such as reporting bias and inability to track …

A sensitive, simple, and low-cost method for COVID-19 wastewater surveillance at an institutional level

P Liu, M Ibaraki, J VanTassell, K Geith… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory virus, but it is also detected in a significant proportion of fecal
samples from COVID-19 cases. Recent studies have shown that wastewater surveillance …

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 …

Defining the methodological approach for wastewater-based epidemiological studies—Surveillance​ of SARS-CoV-2

H Kopperi, A Tharak, M Hemalatha, U Kiran… - … technology & innovation, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Since COVID-19 outbreak, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) studies as
surveillance system is becoming an emerging interest due to its functional advantage as a …

Survey of rapid development of environmental surveillance methods for SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater

NA Zhou, C Tharpe, JS Meschke… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental surveillance as a part of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) of SARS-
CoV-2 can provide an early, cost-effective, unbiased community-level indicator of circulating …

Wastewater-based surveillance is an effective tool for trending COVID-19 prevalence in communities: a study of 10 major communities for 17 months in Alberta

X Pang, T Gao, E Ellehoj, Q Li, Y Qiu… - ACS Es&t …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The correlations between SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels in wastewater from 12 wastewater
treatment plants and new COVID-19 cases in the corresponding sewersheds of 10 …

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 …

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Bangladesh: opportunities and challenges

R Haque, CL Moe, SJ Raj, L Ong, K Charles… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ongoing pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a public health crisis
of global concern. The progression of the COVID-19 pandemic has been monitored in the …