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Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Communities Through Wastewater Surveillance—a Potential Approach for Estimation of Disease Burden
Current Pollution Reports, Vol.7(2), pp.160-166
06/2021
PMCID: PMC8021931
PMID: 33842197
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Abstract
The episodic outbreak of COVID-19 due to SARS-CoV-2 is severely affecting the economy, and the global count of infected patients is increasing. The actual number of patients had been underestimated due to limited facilities for testing as well as asymptomatic nature of the expression of COVID-19 on individual basis. Tragically, for emerging economies with high population density, the situation has been more complex due to insufficient testing facilities for diagnosis of the disease. However, the recent reports about persistent shedding of viral RNA of SARS-CoV-2 in the human feces have created a possibility to track the prevalence and trends of the disease in communities, known as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). In this article, we highlight the current limitations and future prospects for WBE to manage pandemics.
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- Title
- Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Communities Through Wastewater Surveillance—a Potential Approach for Estimation of Disease Burden
- Creators
- Prosun Bhattacharya - KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyManish Kumar - Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarMd. Tahmidul Islam - KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyRehnuma Haque - 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212 BangladeshSudip Chakraborty - University of CalabriaArslan Ahmad - Wageningen University & ResearchNabeel Khan Niazi - University of Agriculture FaisalabadZeynep Cetecioglu - KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDavid Nilsson - KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyJulian Ijumulana - KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyTom van der Voorn - University of OsnabrückMd Jakariya - North South UniversityMaqsud Hossain - North South UniversityFiroz Ahmed - Noakhali Science and Technology UniversityMahbubur Rahman - 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sarani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212 BangladeshNargis Akter - Water Sanitation and Hygiene Section, United Nations Children’s Fund, BSL Office Complex, 1 Minto Road, Dhaka, 1000 BangladeshDara Johnston - Water Sanitation and Hygiene Section, United Nations Children’s Fund, BSL Office Complex, 1 Minto Road, Dhaka, 1000 BangladeshKazi Matin Ahmed - University of Dhaka
- Publication Details
- Current Pollution Reports, Vol.7(2), pp.160-166
- Publisher
- Springer
- Grant note
- Open access funding provided by Royal Institute of Technology.
- Identifiers
- 991012951193602368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Academic Unit
- School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science; Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article