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