Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has undergone dramatic advancement in the context
of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The power and potential of this …

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

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a powerful tool to understand the actual incidence of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a community because severe acute respiratory …

Wastewater surveillance represents a complementary approach to clinical surveillance to
measure the presence and prevalence of emerging infectious diseases like the novel …

Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 provides an approach for assessing the infection
burden across a sewer service area. For these data to be useful for public health …

Current estimates of COVID-19 prevalence are largely based on symptomatic, clinically
diagnosed cases. The existence of a large number of undiagnosed infections hampers …

Targeted wastewater surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) has been proposed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and …

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) classified COVID-19 as a global pandemic,
with the situation ultimately requiring unprecedented measures to mitigate the effects on …

In the absence of an effective vaccine to prevent COVID-19 it is important to be able to track
community infections to inform public health interventions aimed at reducing the spread and …

Abstract On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), whose causative agent is the Severe Acute Respiratory …