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Wastewater-based epidemiology in Beijing, China: Prevalence of antibiotic use in flu season and association of pharmaceuticals and personal care products with socioeconomic characteristics

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2019
Wastewater-based epidemiology is an emerging field that has mostly been applied to investigate consumption of illicit drugs. In this study, the wastewater-based epidemiology approach was employed to study consumption of pharmaceuticals and personal care ...
Yizhe Zhang   +7 more
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WEPP: Phylogenetic placement achieves near-haplotype resolution in wastewater-based epidemiology. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Computational Biology
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a cost-effective, unbiased, and time-efficient tool for public health surveillance. Although widely adopted since the COVID-19 pandemic, WBE remains underutilized in genomic epidemiology, as most tools are limited ...
Pranav Gangwar   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Dissemination of local sub-variants of SARS-CoV-2 detected by detailed mutation analysis in wastewater-based epidemiology. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is effective for identifying the predominant SARS-CoV-2 variants within specific populations as well as early warning of disease outbreaks.
Ryo Honda   +11 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Wastewater-based epidemiology for novel Coronavirus detection in wastewater [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 2021
The entire world is reeling under the worst pandemic of last 100 years. Over 128 million people have been infected with it and 2.8 million deaths have already taken place, till 30th March 2021.
G. Saini, P. Deepak
doaj   +1 more source

Review of a new investigation method based on wastewater-based epidemiology

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue, 2022
Due to the lack of real-time monitoring information of traditional epidemiological investigation methods, in recent years, a new method of obtaining relevant epidemiological information through wastewater analysis has become an effective way to maintain ...
ZANG Jinxin, YANG Qifan, WANG Na
doaj   +1 more source

Obtaining epidemiological information based on a new method – wastewater analysis: a review

open access: yesZhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022
The trend of illicit drug abuse has become more severe due to the lack of measures for real-time monitoring. In recent years, a novel method of obtaining relevant information through wastewater analysis has become a tracking method to deal with the ...
Jin-xin ZANG, Qi-fan YANG, Na WANG
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological surveillance of enteric viral diseases using wastewater in Africa – A rapid review

open access: yesJournal of Infection and Public Health, 2022
Viral enteric pathogens remain an important cause of diarrhoeal outbreaks among children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Consequently, diarrhoeal illness remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the under-fives in SSA.
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of sampling strategies for pulse loads of SARS-CoV-2: implications for wastewater-based epidemiology

open access: yesWater Science and Technology, 2023
A faecal transport model was applied to a 11.3 km2 wastewater servicing area in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to explore the role that different wastewater sampling campaigns have on estimating the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in a population of 60,000.
Albert Wilhelm König   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Centralized and decentralized wastewater-based epidemiology to infer COVID-19 transmission – A brief review

open access: yesOne Health, 2022
Wastewater-based epidemiology has shown to be a promising and innovative approach to measure a wide variety of illicit drugs that are consumed in the communities. In the same way as for illicit drugs, wastewater-based epidemiology is a promising approach
José Gonçalves   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of metagenomic and targeted methods for sequencing human pathogenic viruses from wastewater

open access: yesmBio, 2023
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a powerful tool for monitoring the emergence and spread of viral pathogens at the population scale. Typical polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods of quantitative and genomic monitoring of viruses in wastewater ...
Harry T. Child   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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