Nature

Air, surface, and wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2; a multimodal evaluation of COVID-19 detection in a built environment

Environmental surveillance of infectious organisms holds tremendous promise to reduce human-to-human transmission in indoor spaces through early detection. We conclude that each daily (24h) ...
Nature

A novel wastewater-based epidemiology indexing method predicts SARS-CoV-2 disease prevalence across treatment facilities in metropolitan and regional populations

One problem of monitoring large geographical regions is that WWTF systems vary greatly in served population and influent wastewater flow rate. Variation in these system parameters can have a diluting ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Community Wastewater-based Infectious Disease Surveillance

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. households are connected to municipal wastewater collection systems. These sewer systems contain the biological waste, including discharged pathogens, of the human ...
The Conversation

Testing sewage has helped track COVID – soon it could reveal much more about the UK’s health

It may not feel like it when you’re swabbing your throat, but improving how we test for diseases is one of the big positives of COVID. Applying methods developed for COVID to other diseases could ...