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 …

A critical review on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in water and wastewater. What do we know?

A Giacobbo, MAS Rodrigues, JZ Ferreira… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak circulating the world is far from being controlled, and possible
contamination routes are still being studied. There are no confirmed cases yet, but little is …

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 …

Occurrence of viruses in sewage sludge: A systematic review

S Gholipour, MR Ghalhari, M Nikaeen… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Enteric viruses are of great importance in wastewater due to their high excretion from
infected individuals, low removal in wastewater treatment processes, long-time survival in …

Early warning of COVID-19 via wastewater-based epidemiology: potential and bottlenecks

Y Zhu, W Oishi, C Maruo, M Saito, R Chen… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
An effective early warning tool is of great administrative and social significance to the
containment and control of an epidemic. Facing the unprecedented global public health …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on the environment

A Facciolà, P Laganà, G Caruso - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
The emerging threat posed by COVID-19 pandemic has strongly modified our lifestyle,
making urgent to re-consider the humans-environment relationships and stimulating towards …

Viral outbreaks detection and surveillance using wastewater-based epidemiology, viral air sampling, and machine learning techniques: A comprehensive review and …

OM Abdeldayem, AM Dabbish, MM Habashy… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A viral outbreak is a global challenge that affects public health and safety. The coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading globally, affecting millions of people …

Microplastics as potential carriers of viruses could prolong virus survival and infectivity

J Lu, Z Yu, L Ngiam, J Guo - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics are emerging contaminants in various aquatic environments, leading to human
and environmental health concerns. Viruses have also been ubiquitously detected in …

The novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: possible environmental transmission, detection, persistence and fate during wastewater and water treatment

S Mohapatra, NG Menon, G Mohapatra… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19 disease, has infected over 27
million people across the globe within a few months. While literature on SARS-CoV-2 …

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 …