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A world of wastewater-based epidemiology

Nature Water, 2023
The approach based on analysing wastewater to monitor drugs or pathogens in the population had been used for decades before it became widespread during the COVID 19 pandemic. We have asked experts located in a number of different nations to share their views on the potential and limitations of wastewater-based epidemiology in the future.
Singer, Andrew C., Thompson, Janelle R., Filho, César R. Mota, Street, Renée, Li, Xiqing, Castiglioni, Sara, Thomas, Kevin V.   +6 more
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs: A critical review on global data

Water Research, 2021
Illicit drug use is complex, hidden and often highly stigmatized behaviour, which brings a vast challenge for drug surveillance systems. Drug consumption can be estimated by measuring human excretion products in untreated wastewater, known as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE).
Pim De Voogt, T L Ter Laak, Annemarie van Wezel   +2 more
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Wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers: Past, present and future [PDF]

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2018
Wastewater is a complex matrix containing a wide range of chemical and biological markers of human activity. Relating concentrations of these "waste" materials in wastewater influent streams to population-scale use, consumption, or rates of exposure, can provide important qualitative or quantitative information on the activity of inhabitants within a ...
Erica Donner, Jake William O'Brien, Jochen Mueller   +2 more
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID and beyond

2022
Wastewater surveillance has proven to be an effective approach to monitor the spread of COVID-19 in the last two years. The specialists have learnt a great deal about the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology, but there are still challenges of technical and legal nature to apply this technique more broadly.
Andrew Singer, Manish Kumar, Mariana Matus, Amy Kirby   +3 more
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Refining the estimation of amphetamine consumption by wastewater-based epidemiology

Water Research, 2022
Consumption of amphetamine and methamphetamine, two common illicit drugs, has been monitored by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in many countries over the past decade. There is potential for the estimated amount of amphetamine used to be skewed at locations where methamphetamine is also consumed, because amphetamine is also excreted to wastewater ...
Jianfa Gao, Daniel A. Burgard, Benjamin J. Tscharke, Foon Yin Lai, Jake W. O'Brien, Hien D. Nguyen, Qiuda Zheng, Jiaying Li, Peng Du, Xiqing Li, Degao Wang, Sara Castiglioni, Copytzy Cruz-Cruz, Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba, Viviane Yargeau, Erik Emke, Kevin V. Thomas, Jochen F. Mueller, Phong K. Thai   +18 more
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for tracking human exposure to mycotoxins

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020
Mycotoxins are among the compounds of most concern for human health because of their common presence in food and their proven toxicity for human health. Human biomonitoring (HBM) studies, foodstuff analysis and dietary surveys are usually used to assess human exposure, but they are costly and time-consuming.
Emma Gracia Lor, Sara Castiglioni, Felix Hernández   +2 more
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Wastewater-based epidemiology for health and lifestyle

2023
Wastewater-based epidemiology was widely used to monitor the spreading of COVID-19. We now know that the technique has the potential help us studying a wide range of population health issues and lifestyle aspects, including dietary habits, illegal drug usage or medications. We shall discuss the issue with Sara Castiglioni (Istituto Mario Negri), Xiqing
Sara Castiglioni, Xiqing Li, Dan Burgard, Phong Thai   +3 more
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Population biomarkers for wastewater-based epidemiology

2023
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)'s greatest strength is to provide objective measures of chemical consumption in different populations. But to compare consumption either spatially or temporally, the consumption estimates need to be population normalized.
O'Brien, Jake W., Thai, Phong K., Tscharke, Benjamin J.   +2 more
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Ethical and responsible development of wastewater-based epidemiology technologies

2021
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a recent field of study which uses chemical analysis to measure substances of interest in samples of wastewater, to provide population-level data. As an emerging set of technologies, ethical and public acceptance issues are actively being discussed by scientists, ethicists and policymakers.
Manning, Suzanne, Walton, Mathew
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Biobanking: Possibilities for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology

Biopreservation and Biobanking
The COVID-19 pandemic, spanning from early 2020 to late 2022, posed unprecedented challenges for global public health. However, it also spurred innovative approaches to pandemic management, notably the development of pathogen detection in wastewater.
Masaaki Kitajima, Hirohisa Abe, Ryo Honda, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Kuroita, Ayuko Nemoto, Ryo Shirakashi, Rodney Scott, Koh Furuta   +8 more
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