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 …

Current and future perspectives for wastewater-based epidemiology as a monitoring tool for pharmaceutical use

T Boogaerts, F Ahmed, PM Choi, B Tscharke… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The medical and societal consequences of the misuse of pharmaceuticals clearly justify the
need for comprehensive drug utilization research (DUR). Wastewater-based epidemiology …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing building-level SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance on a university campus

C Gibas, K Lambirth, N Mittal, MAI Juel… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of ongoing challenges and presents an
increased risk of illness in group environments, including jails, long-term care facilities …

Wastewater-based epidemiology, a tool to bridge biomarkers of exposure, contaminants, and human health

D Vitale, MM Suárez-Varela, Y Picó - Current opinion in environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of wastewater-based epidemiology also known as sewage epidemiology was
proposed by Daughton in 2001. Wastewater-based epidemiology has become now a reality …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of biomarkers in wastewater-based epidemiology: Main approaches and analytical methods

Y Picó, D Barceló - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has become popular to estimate the use of drugs of
abuse and recently to establish the incidence of CoVID 19 in large cities. However, its …

“Waste Not, Want Not” Leveraging Sewer Systems and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Drug Use Trends and Pharmaceutical Monitoring

TB Erickson, N Endo, C Duvallet, N Ghaeli… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Springer
During the current global COVID-19 pandemic and opioid epidemic, wastewater-based
epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a powerful tool for monitoring public health trends by …

Analytical method for the simultaneous determination of a broad range of opioids in influent wastewater: Optimization, validation and applicability to monitor …

T Boogaerts, M Quireyns, A Covaci, H De Loof… - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) employs the analysis of human metabolic
biomarkers in influent wastewater (IWW) to estimate community-wide exposure to …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacy contributions to improved population health: expanding the public health roundtable

MA Strand, NADP Mager, L Hall, SL Martin… - Preventing chronic …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Success in health care is increasingly being measured by improvements in population
health outcomes in response to interventions rather than by services delivered (1). In this …

[HTML][HTML] Standards to support an enduring capability in wastewater surveillance for public health: Where are we?

SL Servetas, KH Parratt, NE Brinkman… - Case Studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a wide range of public health system challenges for
infectious disease surveillance. The discovery that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was shed in feces …

Rapid opioid overdose response system technologies

JTW Teck, A Oteo, A Baldacchino - Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2023 - journals.lww.com
This review highlights the importance of technology applied to every aspect of ROORS. Key
areas of development include the need to protect marginalized groups from algorithmic bias …