Wastewater-based surveillance as a tool for public health action: SARS-CoV-2 and beyond

MD Parkins, BE Lee, N Acosta, M Bautista… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has undergone dramatic advancement in the context
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The power and potential of this …

Monitoring human arboviral diseases through wastewater surveillance: challenges, progress and future opportunities

WL Lee, X Gu, F Armas, M Leifels, F Wu, F Chandra… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Arboviral diseases are caused by a group of viruses spread by the bite of infected
arthropods. Amongst these, dengue, Zika, west nile fever and yellow fever cause the …

Municipal and neighbourhood level wastewater surveillance and subtyping of an influenza virus outbreak

E Mercier, PM D'Aoust, O Thakali, N Hegazy, JJ Jia… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Recurrent influenza epidemics and pandemic potential are significant risks to global health.
Public health authorities use clinical surveillance to locate and monitor influenza and …

SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance data can predict hospitalizations and ICU admissions

A Galani, R Aalizadeh, M Kostakis, A Markou… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract We measured SARS-CoV-2 RNA load in raw wastewater in Attica, Greece, by RT-
qPCR for the environmental surveillance of COVID-19 for 6 months. The lag between RNA …

Wastewater analysis can be a powerful public health tool—if it's done sensibly

HR Safford, K Shapiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic sparked an explosion of interest in
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE; also known as wastewater monitoring or wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] Metrics to relate COVID-19 wastewater data to clinical testing dynamics

A Xiao, F Wu, M Bushman, J Zhang, M Imakaev… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance has emerged as a useful tool in the public health response to the
COVID-19 pandemic. While wastewater surveillance has been applied at various scales to …

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza in preK-12 schools shows school, community, and citywide infections

M Wolken, T Sun, C McCall, R Schneider, K Caton… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance is a passive and efficient way to monitor the spread of infectious
diseases in large populations and high transmission areas such as preK-12 schools …

Microbiome analysis for wastewater surveillance during COVID-19

KD Brumfield, M Leddy, M Usmani, JA Cotruvo… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater surveillance (WS), when coupled with advanced molecular techniques, offers
near real-time monitoring of community-wide transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and allows …

Nationwide trends in COVID-19 cases and SARS-CoV-2 RNA wastewater concentrations in the United States

C Duvallet, F Wu, KA McElroy, M Imakaev… - ACS Es&t …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as a promising technology for population-
level surveillance of COVID-19. In this study, we present results of a large nationwide SARS …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 RNA surveillance in large to small centralized wastewater treatment plants preceding the third COVID-19 resurgence in Bangkok, Thailand

J Sangsanont, S Rattanakul, A Kongprajug… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA has been a successful indicator of COVID-19
outbreaks in populations prior to clinical testing. However, this has been mostly conducted in …