COVID-19 monitoring with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater in urban and rural communities

Equitable SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in low-resource communities lacking centralized sewers is critical as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) progresses. However, large-scale studies on SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater from low-and middle-income countries is limited because of economic and technical reasons.

Citation:
Wannigama DL, Amarasiri M, Hongsing P, ……. Kicic A, Singer AC, Chatsuwan T, et al. COVID-19 monitoring with sparse sampling of sewered and non-sewered wastewater in urban and rural communities. iScience. 2023;26(7)

Keywords:
Applied microbiology; Environmental monitoring; Molecular microbiology; Virology

Abstract:
Equitable SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in low-resource communities lacking centralized sewers is critical as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) progresses. However, large-scale studies on SARS-CoV-2 detection in wastewater from low-and middle-income countries is limited because of economic and technical reasons.