期刊
WATER QUALITY RESEARCH JOURNAL
卷 56, 期 2, 页码 57-67出版社
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wqrj.2020.100
关键词
COVID-19 pandemic; modelling and back-calculation; national response; SARS-CoV-2; wastewater sampling; surveillance; wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)
Wastewater surveillance of pathogens is a useful tool to assess the effectiveness of disease monitoring, providing a sensitive and rapid indicator of infection rate changes. Models can be used to back-calculate wastewater prevalence to population prevalence, as well as help design wastewater sampling strategies.
Wastewater surveillance of pathogens may be a useful tool to help determine whether clinical surveillance of disease is effective or inadequate due to under-reporting and under-detection. In addition, tracking of pathogen concentrations over time could potentially provide a measure of the effectiveness of public health control measures and the impact of the gradual relaxation of these controls. Analysis of wastewater using quantitative molecular methods offers a real-time measure of infections in the community, and thus is expected to provide a more sensitive and rapid indication of changes in infection rates before such effects become detectable by clinical health surveillance. Models may help to back-calculate wastewater prevalence to population prevalence or to correct pathogen counts for wastewater catchment-specific and temporal effects. They may also help to design the wastewater sampling strategy. This article provides a brief summary of the history of pathogen wastewater surveillance to help set the context for the SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) programmes currently being undertaken globally.
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