How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted wastewater-based epidemiology?

DS Barcellos, CER Barquilha, PE Oliveira… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) was one of the areas of scientific knowledge that
developed significantly with the COVID-19 pandemic, with robust worldwide application to …

Wastewater analysis of psychoactive drugs: Non-enantioselective vs enantioselective methods for estimation of consumption

I Langa, R Goncalves, ME Tiritan, C Ribeiro - Forensic Science International, 2021 - Elsevier
The consumption of licit and illicit psychoactive drugs (PAD) is ubiquitous in all communities
and a serious public health problem. Measuring drug consumption is difficult but essential …

“Cocaine Shark”: First report on cocaine and benzoylecgonine detection in sharks

G de Farias Araujo, LVA de Oliveira, RB Hoff… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cocaine (COC) and benzoylecgonine (BE), the main COC metabolite, have been detected
in aquatic ecosystems. Studies focusing on wild fish are, however, very limited, and no …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of legal and illegal drugs consumption in Valencia City (Spain): 10 years of monitoring

J Campo, D Vitale, D Sadutto, L Vera-Herrera, Y Picó - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach provides objective, quantitative, near real-
time profiles of illicit drug consumption by monitoring the concentration of unchanged parent …

Long-term monitoring of drug consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in a small-sized community in Brazil through wastewater-based epidemiology

RZ Hahn, MF Bastiani, LLF Lizot, A Schneider… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The abuse of legal and illegal drugs is a global public health problem, also affecting the
social and economic well-being of the population. Thus, there is a significant interest in …

Wastewater-based epidemiology as a strategy for community monitoring, mapping of hotspots and early warning systems of COVID-19.

FF Sodré, CCS Brandão, CS Vizzottob, AO Maldanerc - 2020 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The ability to monitor the spread of diseases is essential for prevention, intervention and
control practices. In this context, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been applied …

Understanding illicit drug use trends during the Carnival holiday in the Brazilian capital through wastewater analysis

FF Sodré, DJS Freire, DB Alcântara… - Frontiers in analytical …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cocaine and cannabis consumption during and after the 2019 Carnival holiday were
assessed using the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in the capital of Brazil, Brasília …

Site-and event-specific wastewater-based epidemiology: current status and future perspectives

T Verovšek, I Krizman-Matasic, D Heath… - Trends in Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can provide objective and reliable data to monitor
spatio‐temporal patterns of licit and illicit drug use. Numerous studies have been published …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiologia do esgoto como estratégia para monitoramento comunitário, mapeamento de focos emergentes e elaboração de sistemas de alerta rápido …

FF Sodré, C Brandão, CS Vizzotto, AO Maldaner - Química Nova, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
The ability to monitor the spread of diseases is essential for prevention, intervention and
control practices. In this context, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been applied …

Estimation of Macro and Micronutrients in Persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) cv. 'Rojo Brillante' Leaves through Vis-NIR Reflectance Spectroscopy

M Acosta, F Visconti, A Quiñones, J Blasco, JM de Paz - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The nutritional diagnosis of crops is carried out through costly elemental analyses of
different plant organs, particularly leaves, in the laboratory. However, visible and near …