Tracing COVID-19 trails in wastewater: a systematic review of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance with viral variants

A Tiwari, S Adhikari, S Zhang, TB Solomon, A Lipponen… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 associated with varying infectivity,
pathogenicity, diagnosis, and effectiveness against treatments challenged the overall …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing ventilation reduces SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission in schools: A retrospective cohort study in Italy's Marche region

G Buonanno, L Ricolfi, L Morawska… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction While increasing the ventilation rate is an important measure to remove
inhalable virus-laden respiratory particles and lower the risk of infection, direct validation in …

COVID-19 monitoring with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater in urban and rural communities

DL Wannigama, M Amarasiri, P Hongsing, C Hurst… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Equitable SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in low-resource communities lacking centralized
sewers is critical as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) progresses. However, large …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants in October–November 2022 in Italy: detection of XBB. 1, BA. 2.75 and rapid spread of the BQ. 1 lineage

G La Rosa, D Brandtner, GB Ferraro, C Veneri… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study adds insight regarding the occurrence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of
Concern (VOCs) and Variants of Interest (VOIs) in Italy in October and November 2022, by …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater monitoring in tourist cities as potential sentinel sites for near real-time dynamics of imported SARS-CoV-2 variants

J Sangsanont, S Rattanakul, P Makkaew… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) complements the clinical surveillance of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants' distribution in …

Genetic sequencing detected the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant in wastewater a month prior to the first COVID-19 case in Ahmedabad (India)

M Joshi, M Kumar, V Srivastava, D Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based genomic surveillance can identify a huge majority of variants shed by the
infected individuals within a population, which goes beyond genomic surveillance based on …

[HTML][HTML] Co-incidence of BA. 1 and BA. 2 at the start of Singapore's Omicron wave revealed by Community and University Campus wastewater surveillance

FJD Chua, SY Kim, E Hill, JW Cai, WL Lee, X Gu… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance (WWS) has been globally recognised to be a useful tool in
quantifying SARS-CoV-2 RNA at the community and residential levels without biases …

[HTML][HTML] The wave of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant resulted in a rapid spike and decline as highlighted by municipal wastewater surveillance

F Cutrupi, M Cadonna, S Manara, M Postinghel… - … Technology & Innovation, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper highlights the extraordinarily rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 loads in wastewater
that during the Omicron wave in December 2021–February 2022, compared with the profiles …

[HTML][HTML] The spread of the omicron variant: Identification of knowledge gaps, virus diffusion modelling, and future research needs

U Anand, T Pal, A Zanoletti, S Sundaramurthy… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) recognised variant B. 1.1. 529 of the Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as a variant of concern, termed …

Detection of influenza virus in urban wastewater during the season 2022/2023 in Sicily, Italy

CM Maida, W Mazzucco, W Priano, R Palermo… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Seasonal influenza generally represents an underestimated public health
problem with significant socioeconomic implications. Monitoring and detecting influenza …