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] Challenges and opportunities for global genomic surveillance strategies in the COVID-19 era

T Ling-Hu, E Rios-Guzman, R Lorenzo-Redondo… - Viruses, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Global SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance efforts have provided critical data on the ongoing
evolution of the virus to inform best practices in clinical care and public health throughout the …

[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 …

Community-Scale Wastewater Surveillance of Candida auris during an Ongoing Outbreak in Southern Nevada

C Barber, K Crank, K Papp, GK Innes… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Candida auris is an opportunistic fungal pathogen and an emerging global public health
threat, given its high mortality among infected individuals, antifungal resistance, and …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and genome sequencing of an influenza H3N2 variant in wastewater from elementary schools during a surge of influenza A cases in Las Vegas …

V Vo, A Harrington, CL Chang, H Baker… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Real-time surveillance of infectious diseases at schools or in communities is often hampered
by delays in reporting due to resource limitations and infrastructure issues. By incorporating …

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 …

Candida auris discovery through community wastewater surveillance during healthcare outbreak, Nevada, USA, 2022

A Rossi, J Chavez, T Iverson, J Hergert… - Emerging Infectious …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Candida auris transmission is steadily increasing across the United States. We report culture-
based detection of C. auris in wastewater and the epidemiologic link between isolated …

Establishing pathogen log reduction value targets for direct potable reuse in the United States

D Gerrity, K Crank, E Steinle‐Darling… - AWWA Water …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Communities are now turning to potable reuse to augment their water supply portfolios in
response to increasing demand and climate uncertainty. One barrier to broader …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted amplicon sequencing of wastewater samples for detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants with high sensitivity and resolution

M Kuroiwa, Y Gahara, H Kato, Y Morikawa… - Science of The Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a promising approach for monitoring the spread
of SARS-CoV-2 within communities. Although qPCR-based WBE is powerful in that it allows …

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 …