Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater
Abstract SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus capable to infect humans and cause the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19, a disease that has been causing huge impacts across the Earth. COVID-19 patients, including mild, pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, were often seen to contain inf...
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| description | Abstract SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus capable to infect humans and cause the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19, a disease that has been causing huge impacts across the Earth. COVID-19 patients, including mild, pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, were often seen to contain infectious fragments of SARS-CoV-2 in feces and urine samples. Therefore, studies to detect the new coronavirus in wastewater, which collect and concentrate human excreta, have been extremely useful as a viral tracking tool in communities. This type of monitoring, in addition to serve as a non-invasive early warning of COVID-19 outbreaks, would provide better predictions about the SARS-CoV-2 spread and strongly contribute to maintenance the global health. Although current methods to detect viruses in wastewater, based on molecular RT-PCR and RT-qPCR techniques, were considered as reliable and provided accurate qualitative and quantitative results, they have been facing considerable challenges concerning the SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. In this review, the methods used to detect the SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and the challenges to implement an international viral monitoring network were described. The article also addressed the emerging perspectives associated with the SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in this environment and the importance of a worldwide collaboration to generate and disseminate the detection results. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-958c4ba00c2342788e20f5fa595420c22022-12-21T21:34:18ZengAcademia Brasileira de CiênciasAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências1678-26902021-12-0193suppl 410.1590/0001-3765202120210163Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewaterPEDRO H. MAINARDIhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0234-0052EDERIO D. BIDOIAhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-1983Abstract SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus capable to infect humans and cause the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19, a disease that has been causing huge impacts across the Earth. COVID-19 patients, including mild, pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, were often seen to contain infectious fragments of SARS-CoV-2 in feces and urine samples. Therefore, studies to detect the new coronavirus in wastewater, which collect and concentrate human excreta, have been extremely useful as a viral tracking tool in communities. This type of monitoring, in addition to serve as a non-invasive early warning of COVID-19 outbreaks, would provide better predictions about the SARS-CoV-2 spread and strongly contribute to maintenance the global health. Although current methods to detect viruses in wastewater, based on molecular RT-PCR and RT-qPCR techniques, were considered as reliable and provided accurate qualitative and quantitative results, they have been facing considerable challenges concerning the SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. In this review, the methods used to detect the SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and the challenges to implement an international viral monitoring network were described. The article also addressed the emerging perspectives associated with the SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in this environment and the importance of a worldwide collaboration to generate and disseminate the detection results.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652021000800604&tlng=enCollective healthepidemiologymolecular epidemiologypreventive medicinepublic healthsewage monitoring |
| spellingShingle | PEDRO H. MAINARDI EDERIO D. BIDOIA Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências Collective health epidemiology molecular epidemiology preventive medicine public health sewage monitoring |
| title | Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater |
| title_full | Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater |
| title_fullStr | Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater |
| title_short | Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater |
| title_sort | challenges and emerging perspectives of an international sars cov 2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater |
| topic | Collective health epidemiology molecular epidemiology preventive medicine public health sewage monitoring |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652021000800604&tlng=en |
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