Wastewater surveillance for pathogens using reverse transcription-polymerase chain
reaction (RT-PCR) is an effective and resource-efficient tool for gathering community-level …

Viral indicators of human-fecal contamination in wastewaters and environmental waters
have been getting much attention in the past decade. Cross-assembly phage (crAssphage) …

Background COVID-19 manifests with respiratory, systemic, and gastrointestinal (GI)
symptoms. 1, SARS-CoV-2 RNA is detected in respiratory and fecal samples, and recent …

Wastewater-based epidemiology has potential as an early-warning tool for determining the
presence of COVID-19 in a community. The University of Arizona (UArizona) utilized WBE …

A year since the declaration of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
there were over 110 million cases and 2.5 million deaths. Learning from methods to track …

Background: The effective reproductive number, R e, is a critical indicator to monitor disease
dynamics, inform regional and national policies, and estimate the effectiveness of …

Sewer overflow (SO), which has attracted global attention, poses serious threat to public
health and ecosystem. SO impacts public health via consumption of contaminated drinking …

Wastewater-based surveillance of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) is used to monitor the population-level prevalence of the COVID-19 disease …

This review discusses the techniques available for detecting and inactivating of pathogens
in municipal wastewater, landfill leachate, and solid waste. In view of the current COVID-19 …

Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 spread and identification of variants in sewers has been
demonstrated to accurately detect prevalence of viral strains and is advantageous to clinical …