“Waste Not, Want Not” — Leveraging Sewer Systems and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Drug Use Trends and Pharmaceutical Monitoring

During the current global COVID-19 pandemic and opioid epidemic, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a powerful tool for monitoring public health trends by analysis of biomarkers including drugs, chemicals, and pathogens. Wastewater surveillance downstream at wastewater treatment plan...

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Main Authors: Erickson, Timothy B., Endo, Noriko, Duvallet, Claire, Ghaeli, Newsha, Hess, Kaitlyn, Alm, Eric J, Matus, Mariana, Chai, Peter R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131209