Australian and New Zealand Laboratory Experience and Proposed Future Direction of Wastewater Pathogen Genomic Surveillance

Environments, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(4), P. 114 - 114

Published: April 8, 2025

Wastewater pathogen surveillance was rapidly implemented across Australia and New Zealand as a public health tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. To assess method consistency identify opportunities for harmonization, we surveyed all Australian Laboratories conducting government-funded wastewater surveillance. The survey demonstrated alignment of some choices, particularly municipal treatment plant (WWTP) sampling use electromagnetic membrane filtration followed by RT-qPCR. However, key differences were observed in sample volumes; nucleic acid purification methods; validation approaches; sequencing, analysis, reporting methods SARS-CoV-2 lineages. A lack consensus on best-practice evident, highlighting need interlaboratory data exchanges to support comparability. Following pandemic period, several jurisdictional programs discontinued despite mounting international evidence utility wastewater-based epidemiology range pathogens. Subsequently, nationally funded program announced Australia, necessitating re-establishment laboratory capacity jurisdictions expansion target pathogens other centers. results this are intended inform enhancement regional provide foundation knowledge sharing approach harmonization.

Language: Английский

Contextualising COVID-19 in 2024

Microbiology Australia, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the ASM. This is an open access article distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY)

Language: Английский

Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 during a mass sporting event in the City of Cape Town, Western Cape

Frontiers in Public Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Wastewater surveillance has become an important public health tool with numerous research studies indicating its potential for monitoring coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks. The aim of this study was to apply wastewater as indicator COVID-19 monitor the impact a mass sporting event in City Cape Town. compared same over 2 years (2022 and 2023).

Language: Английский