Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Communities Through Wastewater Surveillance—a Potential Approach for Estimation of Disease Burden

IF 6.4 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Current Pollution Reports Pub Date : 2021-04-06 DOI:10.1007/s40726-021-00178-4

Prosun Bhattacharya, Manish Kumar, Md. Tahmidul Islam, Rehnuma Haque, Sudip Chakraborty, Arslan Ahmad, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Zeynep Cetecioglu, David Nilsson, Julian Ijumulana, Tom van der Voorn, Md. Jakariya, Maqsud Hossain, Firoz Ahmed, Mahbubur Rahman, Nargis Akter, Dara Johnston, Kazi Matin Ahmed

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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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通过废水监测监测社区中SARS-CoV-2的流行——一种估计疾病负担的潜在方法

SARS-CoV-2引发的新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)暴发严重影响经济，全球感染人数不断增加。由于检测设施有限，加之新冠肺炎个体表现为无症状，实际患者人数被低估。可悲的是，对于人口密度高的新兴经济体来说，由于诊断该疾病的检测设施不足，情况更为复杂。然而，最近关于SARS-CoV-2病毒RNA在人类粪便中持续脱落的报道，为追踪该疾病在社区中的流行程度和趋势创造了可能性，称为基于废水的流行病学(WBE)。在本文中，我们强调了WBE管理流行病的当前局限性和未来前景。

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Current Pollution Reports Environmental Science-Water Science and Technology

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