Recent progress on wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 surveillance: A systematic review of analytical procedures and epidemiological modeling

S Ciannella, C González-Fernández… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), whose causative agent is the Severe Acute Respiratory …

Bioaerosol exposure assessment in the workplace: the past, present and recent advances

W Eduard, D Heederik, C Duchaine… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Louis Pasteur described the first measurements of airborne microorganisms in 1861. A
century later, the inhalation of spores from thermophilic microorganisms was shown to …

First detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater in North America: a study in Louisiana, USA

SP Sherchan, S Shahin, LM Ward, S Tandukar… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigated the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) RNA in wastewater samples in southern Louisiana, USA. Untreated and treated …

[HTML][HTML] Ozone efficacy for the control of airborne viruses: Bacteriophage and norovirus models

ME Dubuis, N Dumont-Leblond, C Laliberté… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
This study was designed to test the efficacy of an air treatment using ozone and relative
humidity (RH) for the inactivation of airborne viruses. Four phages (φX174, PR772, MS2 and …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of five polyethylene glycol precipitation procedures for the RT-qPCR based recovery of murine hepatitis virus, bacteriophage phi6, and pepper …

S Torii, W Oishi, Y Zhu, O Thakali, B Malla, Z Yu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) precipitation is one of the conventional methods for virus
concentration. This technique has been used to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Applicability of polyethylene glycol precipitation followed by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA …

S Torii, H Furumai, H Katayama - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The primary concentration and molecular process are critical to implement wastewater-
based epidemiology for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

[HTML][HTML] Methods evaluation for rapid concentration and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 in raw wastewater using droplet digital and quantitative RT-PCR

MT Flood, N D'Souza, JB Rose, TG Aw - Food and environmental virology, 2021 - Springer
Wastewater surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
is an emerging public health tool to understand the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 …

Comparison of five bacteriophages as models for viral aerosol studies

N Turgeon, MJ Toulouse, B Martel… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacteriophages are perceived to be good models for the study of airborne viruses because
they are safe to use, some of them display structural features similar to those of human and …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of endogenous RNA biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 and PMMoV in raw wastewater: Impact of temperature and implications for wastewater-based …

JB Burnet, HM Cauchie, C Walczak, N Goeders… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 biomarkers in wastewater should guide
wastewater-based epidemiology users in selecting best RNA biomarkers for reliable …