The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as surveillance and early warning of infectious disease outbreaks

Infectious diseases caused by pathogens have become one of the main threats to public health. Efficient monitoring of infectious disease transmission is critical to prevent and manage infectious disease epidemics. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an efficient approach with great potential for...

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Autores principales: Mao, Kang, Zhang, Kuankuan, Du, Wei, Ali, Waqar, Feng, Xinbin, Zhang, Hua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2020.04.006
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author Mao, Kang
Zhang, Kuankuan
Du, Wei
Ali, Waqar
Feng, Xinbin
Zhang, Hua
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Du, Wei
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Zhang, Hua
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description Infectious diseases caused by pathogens have become one of the main threats to public health. Efficient monitoring of infectious disease transmission is critical to prevent and manage infectious disease epidemics. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an efficient approach with great potential for early warning of infectious disease transmission and outbreaks. By analyzing infectious disease biomarkers in wastewater taken from wastewater collection points, the transmission of infectious diseases in certain areas can be comprehensively monitored in near real time. This short review presents WBE as a surveillance and early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks regarding pathogens with pandemic potential. We also discuss the challenges and perspective of WBE in infectious disease surveillance and early warning.
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spelling pubmed-72129762020-05-11 The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as surveillance and early warning of infectious disease outbreaks Mao, Kang Zhang, Kuankuan Du, Wei Ali, Waqar Feng, Xinbin Zhang, Hua Curr Opin Environ Sci Health Article Infectious diseases caused by pathogens have become one of the main threats to public health. Efficient monitoring of infectious disease transmission is critical to prevent and manage infectious disease epidemics. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an efficient approach with great potential for early warning of infectious disease transmission and outbreaks. By analyzing infectious disease biomarkers in wastewater taken from wastewater collection points, the transmission of infectious diseases in certain areas can be comprehensively monitored in near real time. This short review presents WBE as a surveillance and early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks regarding pathogens with pandemic potential. We also discuss the challenges and perspective of WBE in infectious disease surveillance and early warning. Elsevier B.V. 2020-10 2020-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7212976/ /pubmed/32395676 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2020.04.006 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Mao, Kang
Zhang, Kuankuan
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Ali, Waqar
Feng, Xinbin
Zhang, Hua
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title_full The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as surveillance and early warning of infectious disease outbreaks
title_fullStr The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as surveillance and early warning of infectious disease outbreaks
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title_short The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as surveillance and early warning of infectious disease outbreaks
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395676
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2020.04.006
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