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Paper-based nanosensors to evaluate community-wide illicit drug use for wastewater-based epidemiology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a powerful technique for monitoring illicit drugs of abuse in the community. Here, we report on a surface-enhanced Raman scattering/spectroscopy (SERS) sensor for the sensitive and selective detection of ...
Li, Xiqing   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Sewage epidemiology — A real-time approach to estimate the consumption of illicit drugs in Brussels, Belgium

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2011
The sewage epidemiology approach was applied to a one-year sampling campaign in the largest wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Belgium. The consumption of cocaine (COC), amphetamine (AMP), methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methamphetamine (METH ...
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting material for COVID-19 epidemiology based on wastewater monitoring in Slovakia

open access: yes, 2021
Supporting material (scripts and tables) for pre-print of "COVID-19 epidemiology based on wastewater monitoring in ...
Martin Pavelka
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Making waves: Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19 – approaches and challenges for surveillance and prediction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
\ua9 2020The presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the feces of infected patients and wastewater has drawn attention, not only to the possibility of fecal-oral transmission but also to the use of wastewater as an epidemiological tool.
Quintela-Baluja M   +6 more
core   +5 more sources

Wastewater Surveillance of Aichi Virus in Baltimore

open access: yesPathogens
This study established long-term wastewater surveillance of Aichi virus (AiV) in Maryland. AiV, a member of the Kobuvirus genus associated with acute gastroenteritis, has established itself as an integral marker for wastewater-based monitoring; however ...
Daniel A. Nwaubani   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting SARS-CoV-2 outbreak through wastewater analysis: a success in wastewater-based epidemiology [PDF]

open access: yes
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), triggered a global emergency that exposed the urgent need for surveillance approaches to monitor the dynamics of viral transmission.
Cañas-Cañas, Rubén   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Monitoring changes in COVID-19 infection using wastewater-based epidemiology: A South African perspective

open access: yes, 2021
The study presents the use of wastewater-based epidemiology in monitoring COVID-19 infection dynamics in a South African province focusing on four wastewater treatment plants for 14 weeks.
Isaac Dennis Amoah (3385232)   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Data Hidden in Sewage: Advanced Methods for Identification and Quantification of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Urban Wastewater

open access: yesMolecules
Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) represent one of the rapidly growing groups of new psychoactive substances (NPS) on the illicit drug market. SCs mimic the effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, but they have a greater affinity to the receptors, resulting in ...
Wiktoria Kurzeja   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological Survey and Genomic Insights Into Ostreid Herpesvirus 1 Transmission in the Blood Clam Anadara broughtonii in China (2019–2025)

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Seven‐year surveillance reveals a cold‐adapted OsHV‐1 lineage in blood clams, with disease onset at 13°C—3–5°C lower than in oysters—and identifies asymptomatic carriers and facility effluent as key transmission routes. ABSTRACT Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV‐1) poses a major threat to bivalve aquaculture, but its impact on blood clams (Anadara ...
Xiang Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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