Monitoring human arboviral diseases through wastewater surveillance: challenges, progress and future opportunities

WL Lee, X Gu, F Armas, M Leifels, F Wu, F Chandra… - Water Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Arboviral diseases are caused by a group of viruses spread by the bite of infected
arthropods. Amongst these, dengue, Zika, west nile fever and yellow fever cause the …

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 …

A world of wastewater-based epidemiology

AC Singer, JR Thompson, CRM Filho, R Street, X Li… - Nature Water, 2023‏ - nature.com
The approach based on analysing wastewater to monitor drugs or pathogens in the
population had been used for decades before it became widespread during the COVID 19 …

[HTML][HTML] Urban wastewater-based epidemiology for multi-viral pathogen surveillance in the Valencian region, Spain

I Girón-Guzmán, E Cuevas-Ferrando, R Barranquero… - Water research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has lately arised as a promising tool for monitoring
and tracking viral pathogens in communities. In this study, we analysed WBE's role as a …

The one health perspective to improve environmental surveillance of zoonotic viruses: lessons from COVID-19 and outlook beyond

M Leifels, O Khalilur Rahman, IC Sam… - ISME …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
The human population has doubled in the last 50 years from about 3.7 billion to
approximately 7.8 billion. With this rapid expansion, more people live in close contact with …

Utilizing river and wastewater as a SARS-CoV-2 surveillance tool in settings with limited formal sewage systems

KG Barnes, JI Levy, J Gauld, J Rigby… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted health systems globally and robust
surveillance has been critical for pandemic control, however not all countries can currently …

Wastewater surveillance monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and dynamics of transmission and community burden of COVID-19

ME Hasing, BE Lee, T Gao, Q Li, Y Qiu… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Wastewater-based surveillance is a valuable approach for monitoring COVID-19 at
community level. Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) in wastewater has …

[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 …

[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 …

Portable, single nucleotide polymorphism-specific duplex assay for virus surveillance in wastewater

C Oh, G Xun, ST Lane, VA Petrov, H Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The Argonaute protein from the archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus (Pf Ago) is a DNA-guided
nuclease that targets DNA with any sequence. We designed a virus detection assay in which …