Background The international spread of poliovirus exposes all countries to the risk of
outbreaks and is designated a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by WHO …

Genomic sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance early pathogen detection
and characterization with implications for public health and clinical decision making …

Since the emergence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have rapidly …

Infection with enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has been linked with severe neurological disease
such as acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in recent years. However, active surveillance for EV …

As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) strategizes towards the final steps of
eradication, routine immunization schedules evolve, and high-quality vaccination …

Timely detection of outbreaks is needed for poliovirus eradication, but gold standard
detection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo takes 30 days (median). Direct molecular …

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 …

Increasing detections of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) globally, including in countries
previously declared polio free, is a public health emergency of international concern …

The major aim of the enterovirus surveillance (EVSurv) in Germany is to prove the absence
of poliovirus circulation in the framework of the Global Polio Eradication Program (GPEI) …

Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) is an important epidemiological and public health
tool for tracking pathogens across the scale of a building, neighbourhood, city, or region …