Post-pandemic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater Bodies using Integrated Molecular Analysis

Cleaner Water, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 100079 - 100079

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

Advancing Public Health Surveillance: Integrating Modeling and GIS in the Wastewater-Based Epidemiology of Viruses, a Narrative Review

Pathogens, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(8), С. 685 - 685

Опубликована: Авг. 14, 2024

This review article will present a comprehensive examination of the use modeling, spatial analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS) in surveillance viruses wastewater. With advent global health challenges like COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater has emerged as crucial tool for early detection management viral outbreaks. explore application various modeling techniques that enable prediction understanding virus concentrations spread patterns systems. It highlights role analysis mapping distribution loads, providing insights into dynamics transmission within communities. The integration GIS be explored, emphasizing utility such visualizing data, enhancing sampling site selection, ensuring equitable monitoring across diverse populations. also discuss innovative combination with remote sensing data predictive offering multi-faceted approach to understand spread. Challenges quality, privacy concerns, necessity interdisciplinary collaboration addressed. concludes by underscoring transformative potential these analytical tools public health, advocating continued research innovation strengthen preparedness response strategies future threats. aims provide foundational researchers officials, fostering advancements field wastewater-based epidemiology.

Язык: Английский

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

Frontiers in Public Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12

Опубликована: Дек. 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).

Язык: Английский