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Environmental Surveillance. An Additional/Alternative Approach for Virological Surveillance in Greece? [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011
The detection of viruses in the sewage of an urban city by nucleic acid amplification techniques allows the identification of the viral strains that are circulating in the community. The aim of the study was the application of such detection which gives useful data on the distribution, spread, and frequency of these viruses, supporting epidemiological ...
Alex Galanis, Sevasti Filippidou, Apostolos Vantarakis   +2 more
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Toward Accurate and Robust Environmental Surveillance Using Metagenomics

Frontiers in Genetics, 2021
Environmental surveillance is a critical tool for combatting public health threats represented by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the continuous increase of antibiotic resistance in pathogens.
Jiaxian Shen, Alexander G. McFarland, Vincent B. Young, Mary K. Hayden, Erica M. Hartmann   +4 more
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Environmental surveillance of pathogens in Africa. [PDF]

Appl Environ Microbiol
ABSTRACT The control of infectious diseases depends on effective diagnostics and interventions. In Africa, resource limitations hinder clinical surveillance. Environmental surveillance (ES), particularly wastewater surveillance, offers a cost-effective alternative. While
Darko E, Akortia D, Nkrumah G, Opoku Agyapong F, Twumasi-Ankrah S, Owusu-Ansah M, Glazik R, Shaw A, Grassly N, Owusu-Dabo E, Adu-Sarkodie Y, Owusu M.   +11 more
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Rapid, low-cost colorimetric detection of Salmonella Typhi bacteriophages for environmental surveillance [PDF]

mBio
Typhoid fever remains a global public health challenge, especially in low- and middle-income countries where poor sanitation and limited access to clean water facilitate transmission.
Kesia Esther da Silva, Tuya Yokoyama, Shiva Ram Naga, Mamata Maharjan, Paulo César Pereira dos Santos, Karla N. Fisher, Jean T. Coulibaly, Max Zhang Yang, Eric Jorge Nelson, Richelle C. Charles, Katherine Shafer, Brad-Lot Igiraneza, Samaila Yusuf, Elisabeth Mulder, Kathleen Neuzil, Isaac I. Bogoch, Rajeev Shrestha, Dipesh Tamrakar, Jason R. Andrews   +18 more
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The value of environmental surveillance for pandemic response. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Environmental sampling surveillance (ESS) technologies, such as wastewater genomic surveillance and air sensors, have been increasingly adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide valuable information for public health response. However, ESS coverage is not universal, and public health decision-makers need support to choose whether and how to ...
Nascimento de Lima P, Karr S, Lim JZ, Vardavas R, Roberts D, Kessler A, Awan J, Faherty LJ, Willis HH.   +8 more
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Evaluation of detection performance and cost-effectiveness of IDEXX Colilert-18 and ChromAgar for environmental surveillance of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli in water samples from urban marketplaces in Blantyre, Malawi [PDF]

Microbiology Spectrum
In sub-Saharan Africa, extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacterial infections pose significant public health risks. The importance of ESBL transmission within the food chain, as well as the role of urban marketplaces in this relationship,
Effita Fifi Masoamphambe, Jones Chipinga, Madalitso Mphasa, Kondwani Chidziwitsano, Mindy Panulo, James Jafali, Nicholas Feasey, David Berendes, Amy Kirby, Tracy Morse, Derek Cocker   +10 more
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Burkholderia pseudomallei in Environment of Adolescent Siblings with Melioidosis, Kerala, India, 2019

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
In 2019, Burkholderia pseudomallei was isolated from the backyard of 2 siblings with melioidosis in Kerala, India. This finding highlights the value of healthcare providers being aware of risk for melioidosis in febrile patients, of residents taking ...
Praveena Bhaskaran, Vinitha Prasad, Anusha Gopinathan, Tushar Shaw, Suchitra Sivadas, Chandrasekhar Jayakumar, Soumi Chowdhury, Aparna Dravid, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Anil Kumar   +9 more
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Environmental Factors Associated With Soil Prevalence of the Melioidosis Pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei: A Longitudinal Seasonal Study From South West India

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Melioidosis is a seasonal infectious disease in tropical and subtropical areas caused by the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. In many parts of the world, including South West India, most cases of human infections are reported during times of ...
Tushar Shaw, Tushar Shaw, Karoline Assig, Karoline Assig, Chaitanya Tellapragada, Chaitanya Tellapragada, Gabriel E. Wagner, Madhu Choudhary, André Göhler, Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara, Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara, Ivo Steinmetz, Ivo Steinmetz, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay   +14 more
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Sunlight photolysis of SARS-CoV-2 N1 gene target in the water environment: considerations for the environmental surveillance of wastewater-impacted surface waters

Journal of Water and Health, 2023
Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 has been used around the world to supplement clinical testing data for situational awareness of COVID-19 disease trends.
Fiona B. Dunn, Andrea I. Silverman
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Environmental Monitoring for Enteroviruses in Maputo, Mozambique—2018

Pathogens, 2022
Due to the possibility of wild poliovirus importation from endemic regions and the high circulation of vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in the African region, Mozambique implemented a surveillance program to monitor the circulation of enteroviruses in ...
Diocreciano Matias Bero, Sheila António Nhassengo, Ivanildo Pedro Sousa, Silas Oliveira de Sousa, Raiana Scerni Machado, Amanda Meireles Nunes Dias, Cristiane de Sousa Ferreira, Fernanda Marcicano Burlandy, Nilsa de Deus, Edson Elias da Silva   +9 more
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