[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs: A critical review on global data

M Huizer, TL Ter Laak, P de Voogt, AP van Wezel - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Illicit drug use is complex, hidden and often highly stigmatized behaviour, which brings a
vast challenge for drug surveillance systems. Drug consumption can be estimated by …

Wastewater-based epidemiology: current status and future prospects

M Lorenzo, Y Picó - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been consolidated as a tool to provide real-
time information on consumption of legal and illegal drugs of abuse by the population …

Assessment of a wide array of organic micropollutants of emerging concern in wastewater treatment plants in Greece: Occurrence, removals, mass loading and …

A Ofrydopoulou, C Nannou, E Evgenidou… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploring the contamination profile of multi-class emerging contaminants (ECs) in
wastewater is highly desirable. To this end, the occurrence, removal, mass loading and risks …

Biosensors for the detection of disease outbreaks through wastewater-based epidemiology

MG Jiménez-Rodríguez, F Silva-Lance… - TrAC Trends in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) is a novel community-wide monitoring tool
that provides comprehensive real-time data of the public and environmental health status …

Wastewater-based epidemiology for cost-effective mass surveillance of COVID-19 in low-and middle-income countries: challenges and opportunities

S Shrestha, E Yoshinaga, SK Chapagain, G Mohan… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an approach that can be used to estimate COVID-
19 prevalence in the population by detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Occurrence of Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and ketamine in wastewater in the United States and Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Adhikari, R Kumar, EM Driver, DA Bowes… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Z-drugs, benzodiazepines and ketamine are classes of psychotropic drugs prescribed for
treating anxiety, sleep disorders and depression with known side effects including an …

Contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs) in a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Indonesia

MP Astuti, S Notodarmojo, CR Priadi… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
This study provides the first set of quantitative data on the occurrence and fate of a wide
range of contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs) in Indonesia's largest wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] A new Wastewater-Based Epidemiology workflow to estimate community wide non-communicable disease prevalence using pharmaceutical proxy data

N Ceolotto, P Dollamore, A Hold, B Balne… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
This manuscript introduces a new wastewater-based epidemiology workflow for estimation
of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prevalence by using wastewater-based …

Long-term tracking of opioid consumption in two United States cities using wastewater-based epidemiology approach

AJ Gushgari, AK Venkatesan, J Chen, JC Steele… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Access to near-real time opioid use data is essential to the effective management of the US
opioid crisis. Current narcotic data collection methods are limited by time delay and would …