[HTML][HTML] Future perspectives of wastewater-based epidemiology: monitoring infectious disease spread and resistance to the community level

N Sims, B Kasprzyk-Hordern - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases are acknowledged as one of the most critical threats to global public
health today. Climate change, unprecedented population growth with accelerated rates of …

Implementation of environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 virus to support public health decisions: opportunities and challenges

G Medema, F Been, L Heijnen, S Petterson - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Analysing wastewater can be used to track infectious disease agents that are shed via stool
and urine. Sewage surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested as a tool to determine …

Pharmaceuticals of emerging concern in aquatic systems: chemistry, occurrence, effects, and removal methods

M Patel, R Kumar, K Kishor, T Mlsna… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the last few decades, pharmaceuticals, credited with saving millions of lives, have
emerged as a new class of environmental contaminant. These compounds can have both …

Algal-based system for removal of emerging pollutants from wastewater: A review

R Gondi, S Kavitha, RY Kannah, OP Karthikeyan… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The bioremediation of emerging pollutants in wastewater via algal biotechnology has been
emerging as a cost-effective and low-energy input technological solution. However, the algal …

New psychoactive substances: challenges for drug surveillance, control, and public health responses

A Peacock, R Bruno, N Gisev, L Degenhardt, W Hall… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
The rapid emergence since the mid-2000s of a large and diverse range of substances
originally designed as legal alternatives to more established illicit drugs (pragmatically …

Wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers: past, present and future

PM Choi, BJ Tscharke, E Donner, JW O'Brien… - TrAC Trends in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater is a complex matrix containing a wide range of chemical and biological markers
of human activity. Relating concentrations of these “waste” materials in wastewater influent …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs: a critical review on global data

M Huizer, TL Ter Laak, P de Voogt, AP van Wezel - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Illicit drug use is complex, hidden and often highly stigmatized behaviour, which brings a
vast challenge for drug surveillance systems. Drug consumption can be estimated by …

[HTML][HTML] A review on emerging contaminants in wastewaters and the environment: current knowledge, understudied areas and recommendations for future monitoring

B Petrie, R Barden, B Kasprzyk-Hordern - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
This review identifies understudied areas of emerging contaminant (EC) research in
wastewaters and the environment, and recommends direction for future monitoring. Non …

An investigation into the occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in Colombian wastewater

AM Botero-Coy, D Martínez-Pachón, C Boix… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, the presence of 20 pharmaceuticals in wastewater from Colombia is
investigated. Several widely consumed compounds have been detected in wastewater …

The potential of knowing more: A review of data-driven urban water management

S Eggimann, L Mutzner, O Wani… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
The promise of collecting and utilizing large amounts of data has never been greater in the
history of urban water management (UWM). This paper reviews several data-driven …