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 …

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 one, 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 …

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 …

Characterizing Spatial Information Loss for Wastewater Surveillance Using crAssphage: Effect of Decay, Temperature, and Population Mobility

C Wiesner-Friedman, NE Brinkman… - Environmental …, 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 …

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 …

Spectrum of environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 fragments: Questions, quests, and conquest

M Kumar - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2022 - Elsevier
This works examines the entire spectrum of 'Environmental Surveillance (EnvSurv)'of SARS-
CoV-2 fragments ie the questions, quests, and conquests of the technology since early year …

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 …

Monitoring COVID-19 spread in selected Prague's schools based on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater

MAL Marin, K Zdenkova, J Bartackova… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has demanded a broad range of techniques to better monitor its
extent. Owing to its consistency, non-invasiveness, and cost effectiveness, wastewater …