A state-of-the-art scoping review on SARS-CoV-2 in sewage focusing on the potential of wastewater surveillance for the monitoring of the COVID-19 pandemic

G Bonanno Ferraro, C Veneri, P Mancini… - Food and Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
The outbreak of coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (COVID-19), caused by the Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly spread throughout …

[HTML][HTML] Omicron variant: Current insights and future directions

R Rana, R Kant, RS Huirem, D Bohra… - Microbiological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The global COVID-19 outbreak has returned with the identification of the SARS-CoV-2
Omicron variant (B. 1.1. 529) after appearing to be persistently spreading for the more than …

Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance

P Munk, C Brinch, FD Møller, TN Petersen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the
emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and managing uncertainty and variability for wastewater monitoring beyond the pandemic: Lessons learned from the United Kingdom national …

MJ Wade, AL Jacomo, E Armenise, MR Brown… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on public health resources
around the world. From adversity, opportunities have arisen to measure the state and …

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 …

Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater to evaluate the success of lockdown measures for controlling COVID-19 in the UK

LS Hillary, KH Maher, A Lucaci, J Thorpe, MA Distaso… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic represents one of the greatest recent
threats to human health, wellbeing and economic growth. Wastewater-based epidemiology …

Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale

F Amman, R Markt, L Endler, S Hupfauf, B Agerer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance by wastewater-based epidemiology is poised to provide a
complementary approach to sequencing individual cases. However, robust quantification of …

Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B. 1.1. 7 tracking in wastewater by allele-specific RT-qPCR

WL Lee, M Imakaev, F Armas, KA McElroy… - … & Technology Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The critical need for surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern has prompted the
development of methods that can track variants in wastewater. Here, we develop and …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of the Omicron (B. 1.1. 529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 in aircraft wastewater

W Ahmed, A Bivins, WJM Smith, S Metcalfe… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
On the 26th of November 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the newly
detected B. 1.1. 529 lineage of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics

S Knyazev, K Chhugani, V Sarwal, R Ayyala, H Singh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomics and bioinformatics have emerged as essential
public health tools. The genomic data acquired using these methods have supported the …