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 …

Does normalization of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations by Pepper Mild Mottle Virus improve correlations and lead time between wastewater surveillance and clinical data …

R Maal-Bared, Y Qiu, Q Li, T Gao, SE Hrudey… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) data normalization is an analyte measurement
correction that addresses variations resulting from dilution of fecal discharge by non-sanitary …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption of SARS-CoV-2 onto granular activated carbon (GAC) in wastewater: Implications for improvements in passive sampling

EK Hayes, AK Stoddart, GA Gagnon - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Based on recent studies, passive sampling is a promising method for detecting SARS-CoV-2
in wastewater surveillance (WWS) applications. Passive sampling has many advantages …

From Alpha to Omicron BA. 2: New digital RT-PCR approach and challenges for SARS-CoV-2 VOC monitoring and normalization of variant dynamics in wastewater

S Wurtzer, M Levert, E Dhenain, H Accrombessi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, new variants have continuously emerged and spread
in populations. Among these, variants of concern (VOC) have been the main culprits of …

Comparison of the methods for isolation and detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in municipal wastewater

V Lucansky, M Samec, T Burjanivova… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is a causative agent responsible for the current
global pandemic situation known as COVID-19. Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 include …

Simultaneous detection and quantification of multiple pathogen targets in wastewater

G Rao, D Capone, K Zhu, A Knoble, Y Linden… - PLoS Water, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as a critical tool for public health
surveillance, building on decades of environmental surveillance work for pathogens such as …

Understanding the efficacy of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in two diverse communities

MT Flood, J Sharp, J Bruggink, M Cormier, B Gomes… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based surveillance has been shown to be a
useful tool for monitoring the spread of disease in communities and the emergence of new …

Characterizing spatial information loss for wastewater surveillance using crassphage: effect of decay, temperature, and population mobility

C Wiesner-Friedman, NE Brinkman… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Populations contribute information about their health status to wastewater. Characterizing
how that information degrades in transit to wastewater sampling locations (eg, wastewater …

Assessment of crAssphage as a biological variable for SARS-CoV-2 data normalization in wastewater surveillance

AVC Ribeiro, CF Mannarino, SPC Novo… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims This study aimed to assess the use of cross-assembled phage (crAssphage) as an
endogenous control employing a multivariate normalization analysis and its application as a …

Evaluating wastewater quality parameters as an alternative or complement to molecular indicators for normalization during SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based …

J Straathof, NM Hull - Environments, 2024 - mdpi.com
Measuring fecal nucleic acid indicators for data normalization can increase costs during
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). The efficacy of routinely assayed water quality …