Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems

A Keshaviah, MB Diamond, MJ Wade… - The Lancet Global …, 2023 - thelancet.com
To inform the development of global wastewater monitoring systems, we surveyed
programmes in 43 countries. Most programmes monitored predominantly urban populations …

Realising a global One Health disease surveillance approach: Insights from wastewater and beyond

R Hill, GD Stentiford, DI Walker, C Baker-Austin… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
One Health is a recognition of the shared environment inhabited by humans, animals and
plants, and the impact of their interactions on the health of all organisms. The COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater sequencing reveals community and variant dynamics of the collective human virome

M Tisza, S Javornik Cregeen, V Avadhanula… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Wastewater is a discarded human by-product, but its analysis may help us understand the
health of populations. Epidemiologists first analyzed wastewater to track outbreaks of …

The role of structural hydrophobicity on cationic amphiphilic aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer-bacterial interaction and photodynamic efficiency

MMS Lee, EY Yu, D Yan, JHC Chau, Q Wu, JWY Lam… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The aggregation-induced emission photosensitizer (AIE PS) has stood out as an alternative
and competent candidate in bacterial theranostics, particularly with the use of cationic AIE …

Scientists' call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

TW Crowther, R Rappuoli, C Corinaldesi, R Danovaro… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, and protists, are essential to life
on Earth and the functioning of the biosphere. Here, we discuss the key roles of …

Global wastewater surveillance for pathogens with pandemic potential: opportunities and challenges

NC Grassly, AG Shaw, M Owusu - The Lancet Microbe, 2024 - thelancet.com
Wastewater surveillance holds great promise as a sensitive method to detect spillover of
zoonotic infections and early pandemic emergence, thereby informing risk mitigation and …

Cellulose-based adsorbents for solid phase extraction and recovery of pharmaceutical residues from water

D Olorunnisola, CG Olorunnisola, OB Otitoju… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulose has attracted interest from researchers both in academic and industrial sectors
due to its unique structural and physicochemical properties. The ease of surface …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamic relationship between COVID-19 cases and SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations across time and space: Considerations for model training …

R Schill, KL Nelson, S Harris-Lovett… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based surveillance has been used alongside
diagnostic testing to monitor infection rates. With the decline in cases reported to public …

A narrative review of wastewater surveillance: pathogens of concern, applications, detection methods, and challenges

S Singh, AI Ahmed, S Almansoori, S Alameri… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The emergence and resurgence of pathogens have led to significant global
health challenges. Wastewater surveillance has historically been used to track water-borne …

[HTML][HTML] Piloting wastewater-based surveillance of norovirus in England

DI Walker, J Witt, W Rostant, R Burton, V Davison… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) gained widespread use as a tool for supporting
clinical disease surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is now significant …