Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic

KKW To, S Sridhar, KHY Chiu, DLL Hung… - Emerging microbes & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Without modern medical management and vaccines, the severity of the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

[HTML][HTML] Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance

W Ahmed, SL Simpson, PM Bertsch, K Bibby… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain
reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective and resource-efficient tool for gathering community-level …

Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: Lessons learnt from recent studies to define future applications

M Hamouda, F Mustafa, M Maraqa, T Rizvi… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is successful in the detection of the spread of SARS-
CoV-2. This review examines the methods used and results of recent studies on the …

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 …

A novel passive sampling approach for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in a Canadian province with low prevalence of COVID-19

EK Hayes, CL Sweeney, LE Anderson, B Li… - … : Water Research & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The overall objective of this work was to develop a simple and effective passive sampling
protocol for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in sewer catchments at targeted institutional-level …

Reviving the “Moore swab”: a classic environmental surveillance tool involving filtration of flowing surface water and sewage water to recover typhoidal Salmonella …

MJ Sikorski, MM Levine - Applied and Environmental …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The “Moore swab” is a classic environmental surveillance tool whereby a gauze pad tied
with string is suspended in flowing water or wastewater contaminated with human feces and …

Recent trends on methods for the concentration of viruses from water samples

S Bofill-Mas, M Rusiñol - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Relevant studies on waterborne viral occurrence published in the past 2 years have been
analyzed showing that most of them were performed in surface waters and wastewater …

An updated min-review on environmental route of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission

E Hoseinzadeh, S Javan, M Farzadkia… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The risk of newly emerging diseases is constantly present in a world where changes occur
significantly in climatic, commercial, and ecological conditions, in addition to the …

SARS-CoV-2 known and unknowns, implications for the water sector and wastewater-based epidemiology to support national responses worldwide: early review of …

K Hill, A Zamyadi, D Deere… - Water Quality …, 2021 - iwaponline.com
Wastewater surveillance of pathogens may be a useful tool to help determine whether
clinical surveillance of disease is effective or inadequate due to under-reporting and under …

Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in a small coastal community: Effects of tourism on viral presence and variant identification among low prevalence …

AL Rainey, JC Loeb, SE Robinson, JA Lednicky… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology has been used to measure SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in
cities worldwide as an indicator of community health, however, few longitudinal studies have …