Wastewater monitoring in tourist cities as potential sentinel sites for near real-time dynamics of imported SARS-CoV-2 variants

The spread of the omicron variant: Identification of knowledge gaps, virus diffusion modelling, and future research needs

“…The results show that publications focused on specific environments and public health issues. They mainly concern virus physiology and mutation, vaccine and human immune responses and infection control, and can be summarized as follow: Detection, identification, and quantification of the virus and its emerging variants in various settings such as (mostly environmental) ( Anand et al, 2021a ; Crits-Christoph et al, 2021 ; Ekanayake et al, 2023 ; Heijnen et al, 2021 ; Karthikeyan et al, 2022 ; Lee et al, 2021 ; Osterman et al, 2021 ; Rios et al, 2021 ; Sangsanont et al, 2023 ; Van Poelvoorde et al, 2021 ; Wilton et al, 2020 ; Wurtzer et al, 2022 ) nasopharyngeal/throat swabs ( Castañeda-Mogollón et al, 2022 ; D'Agostino et al, 2022 ; Lownik et al, 2021 ), as well as its possible adoption as an early warning system to have information on the status of the current and possible future epidemic ( Dai et al, 2021 ; Otto et al, 2021 ), with most of these studies relying on “wastewater-based epidemiology” principles ( Plaza-Garrido et al, 2023 ; Schenk et al, 2023 ). Some of these studies enable detailed tracking of the outbreak's dynamics and mutations as they spread through the population (A. T. B. Chen et al, 2021 ; Korber et al, 2020 ; Mannsverk et al, 2022 ; Wright et al, 2022 ).…”

Influence of membrane pore-size on the recovery of endogenous viruses from wastewater using an adsorption-extraction method

“…Wastewater surveillance has been used to track the spread of poliovirus, an enteric viral pathogen that can cause paralysis and death, as supplementary information in the polio eradication initiative ( WHO, 2003 , Garg et al, 2018 ). The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about extensive use of wastewater to monitor for respiratory viruses, such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19 ( Ahmed et al, 2020a , Medema et al, 2020 , Sangsanont et al, 2023 ). Since then, wastewater surveillance has also been demonstrated as a tool to monitor other respiratory viruses, such as influenza virus, rhinovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus ( Dumke et al, 2022 , Ahmed et al, 2023a ), as well as monkeypox virus ( de Jonge et al, 2022 , Wurtzer et al, 2022 ).…”