Resources with keywords: wastewater
Genomic analysis and wastewater testing can complement traditional case-based surveillance to identify and better characterize HAV outbreaks.
Between September and December 2024, four countries in the EU/EEA (Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain) and the United Kingdom reported detections of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in sewage samples. This is the first time cVDPV2 has been detected in EU/EEA countries from environmental surveillance.
EID Whitehouse ER, Gerloff N, English R, Reckling SK, Alazawi MA, Fuschino M, et al.
Yinda C, Morris DH, Fischer RJ, et al.
The findings suggest that, because virus stability is sufficient to support environmental MPXV transmission in healthcare settings, exposure and dose-response will be limiting factors for those transmission routes
Cheng L, Dhiyebi H, Varia M, Atanas K, Srikanthan N, Hayat S, et al..
At the peak of the Omicron BA.2 outbreak in April 2022, reported COVID-19 cases were underestimated 19-fold because of changes in clinical testing.
Morfino RC, Bart SM, Franklin A, et al.
Summary from publication: During August 1–September 9, 2022, the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, in collaboration with CDC, evaluated the feasibility of SARS-CoV-2 variant detection in aircraft wastewater from incoming international flights.
Ryerson AB, Lang D, Alazawi MA, et al.
Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in the U.S. Will Covid change that?
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