Recent progress on wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance: A systematic review of analytical procedures and epidemiological modeling

S Ciannella, C González-Fernández… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), whose causative agent is the Severe Acute Respiratory …

Does normalization of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations by Pepper Mild Mottle Virus improve correlations and lead time between wastewater surveillance and clinical data …

R Maal-Bared, Y Qiu, Q Li, T Gao, SE Hrudey… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) data normalization is an analyte measurement
correction that addresses variations resulting from dilution of fecal discharge by non-sanitary …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of process limit of detection and quantification variation of SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR and RT-dPCR assays for wastewater surveillance

W Ahmed, A Bivins, S Metcalfe, WJM Smith… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA requires the rigorous
characterization of the limit of detection resulting from the entire sampling process-the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of five polyethylene glycol precipitation procedures for the RT-qPCR based recovery of murine hepatitis virus, bacteriophage phi6, and pepper …

S Torii, W Oishi, Y Zhu, O Thakali, B Malla, Z Yu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation is one of the conventional methods for virus
concentration. This technique has been used to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome …

High-frequency, high-throughput quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater settled solids at eight publicly owned treatment works in Northern California shows …

MK Wolfe, A Topol, A Knudson, A Simpson, B White… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A number of recent retrospective studies have demonstrated that severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA concentrations in wastewater are …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of Adsorption-Extraction (AE) and Nanotrap® Magnetic Virus Particles (NMVP) workflows for the recovery of endogenous enveloped …

W Ahmed, A Bivins, A Korajkic, S Metcalfe… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, two virus concentration methods, namely Adsorption-Extraction (AE) and
Nanotrap® Magnetic Virus Particles (NMVP) along with commercially available extraction …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of rapid concentration methods for the recovery of SARS-CoV-2 and quantification of human enteric viruses and a sewage-associated …

W Ahmed, A Bivins, SL Simpson, WJM Smith… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
To support public-health-related disease surveillance and monitoring, it is crucial to
concentrate both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses from domestic wastewater. To date …

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at intra-city level demonstrated high resolution in tracking COVID-19 and calibration using chemical indicators

P Saingam, B Li, BN Quoc, T Jain, A Bryan… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology has proven to be a supportive tool to better comprehend
the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the disease moves into endemic stage, the …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted community wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and Mpox virus during a festival mass-gathering event

K Brighton, S Fisch, H Wu, K Vigil, TG Aw - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance has emerged recently as a powerful approach to understanding
infectious disease dynamics in densely populated zones. Wastewater surveillance, while …

On the critical role of human feces and public toilets in the transmission of COVID-19: Evidence from China

Q Wang, L Liu - Sustainable cities and society, 2021 - Elsevier
The surprising spread speed of the COVID-19 pandemic creates an urgent need for
investigating the transmission chain or transmission pattern of COVID-19 beyond the …