Facility wastewater monitoring as an effective tool for pandemic infection control: An experience in COVID-19 pandemic with long-term monitoring.

IF 1.9 4区 医学 Q3 INFECTIOUS DISEASES Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI:10.1016/j.jiac.2024.08.014
Shoko Tateishi, Kensuke Hamada, Noriko Emoto, Kazumi Abe, Koichi Abe, Yuki Kawasaki, Mitsuhiro Sunohara, Kyoji Moriya, Hiroyuki Katayama, Takeya Tsutsumi, Yoshinori Murakami, Yutaka Suzuki, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Shintaro Yanagimoto
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Introduction: Since the first report of a novel coronavirus infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019, the infection has spread rapidly and had a significant impact on our lives. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no adequate testing system in place, despite an urgent need for infection control measures in student dormitories.

Methods: We have been monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater as part of our infection control efforts in the university facilities since fall 2020. In the four dormitories, absorbent cotton was placed in the drains that the facility wastewater passed through, and samples were collected twice a week and processed by RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2. The dormitory residents were informed of the monitoring results the next morning.

Results: The positivity of residents in the dormitories was highly consistent with the positivity of wastewater. Wastewater was positive in 89 % of cases before any residents were tested and found positive. Facility wastewater monitoring showed sensitivities of 80.4 % and specificities of 87.6 %. No traceable resident-to-resident transmission of infection within the facility was confirmed during the study period.

Conclusion: Sampling a single wastewater outlet in a building for SARS-CoV-2 PCR can effectively indicate the presence or absence of COVID-19 cases and be very useful for infection control of a facility. This simple and effective monitoring is applicable to future outbreaks of both emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

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将设施废水监测作为大流行病感染控制的有效工具:在 COVID-19 大流行中进行长期监测的经验。
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Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy INFECTIOUS DISEASES-PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (JIC) — official journal of the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases — welcomes original papers, laboratory or clinical, as well as case reports, notes, committee reports, surveillance and guidelines from all parts of the world on all aspects of chemotherapy, covering the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and control of infection, including treatment with anticancer drugs. Experimental studies on animal models and pharmacokinetics, and reports on epidemiology and clinical trials are particularly welcome.
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