SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in wastewater as a model for monitoring evolution of endemic viruses

M Yousif, S Rachida, S Taukobong, N Ndlovu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As global SARS-CoV-2 burden and testing frequency have decreased, wastewater
surveillance has emerged as a key tool to support clinical surveillance efforts. The aims of …

Leveraging wastewater-based epidemiology to monitor the spread of neglected tropical diseases in African communities

B Ofori, RK Agoha, EK Bokoe, ENA Armah… - Infectious …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Neglected tropical diseases continue to cause a significant burden worldwide, with Africa
accounting for more than one-third of the global burden. Over the past decade, progress has …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology as a public health resource in low-and middle-income settings

KA Hamilton, MJ Wade, KG Barnes, RA Street… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the face of emerging and re-emerging diseases, novel and innovative approaches to
population scale surveillance are necessary for the early detection and quantification of …

Molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Northern South Africa: wastewater surveillance from January 2021 to May 2022

LAM Tambe, P Mathobo, ND Matume… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Wastewater-based genomic surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) provides a comprehensive approach to characterize …

Longitudinal wastewater-based surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 during 2023 in Ethiopia

D Abera Dinssa, G Gebremicael, Y Mengistu… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Although wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) successfully functioned as a
tool for monitoring the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic globally, relatively …

Detection and quantification of hepatitis A virus titers from wastewater in South Africa and comparison with clinical data from the National Surveillance Database

K Subramoney, S Gwala, E Phalane, M Macheke… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Wastewater surveillance is useful for monitoring the prevalence of hepatitis A virus (HAV).
We developed and optimized HAV detection and quantification methods for wastewater …

Wastewater surveillance overcomes socio-economic limitations of laboratory-based surveillance when monitoring disease transmission: the South African experience …

G Maree, F Els, Y Naidoo, L Naidoo, P Mahamuza… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Wastewater and environmental surveillance has been promoted as a communicable
disease surveillance tool because it overcomes inherent biases in laboratory-based …

Wastewater-integrated pathogen surveillance dashboards enable real-time, transparent, and interpretable public health risk assessment and dissemination

NS Msomi, JI Levy, NL Matteson, N Ndlovu, P Ntuli… - medRxiv, 2025 - medrxiv.org
Timely pathogen surveillance and reporting is essential for effective public health guidance.
Web dashboards have become a key tool for communicating public health information to …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental surveillance and wastewater-based epidemiology for infectious diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries: A sco** review of …

S Kotamreddy, D Abraham, K O'Reilly, J Pryce - Veri**v, 2025 - verixiv.org
Environmental surveillance (ES) of wastewater (WW) is an important tool for monitoring
infectious diseases, but interpretation of ES results from Low and Middle-Income Countries …

Harnessing methods, data analysis, and near-real-time wastewater monitoring for enhanced public health response using high throughput sequencing.

P Ramachandran, T Kayikcioglu, T Walsky, K Judy… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Wastewater-based analysis has emerged as a pivotal method for monitoring SARS-CoV-2
(SC2). Leveraging high-throughput sequencing on wastewater samples facilitates a …