{"title":"Wastewater-based epidemiology for novel Coronavirus detection in wastewater","authors":"G. Saini, P. S. Deepak","doi":"10.22034/GJESM.2021.04.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The entire world is reeling under the worst pandemic of last 100 years. Over 128 million people have been infected with it and 2.8 million deaths have already taken place, till 30th March 2021. The identification of materials positive cases is the first step towards its containment and treatment. However, testing of individuals is an extensive, expensive and time-consuming exercise. In addition, societal taboos are also associated with infected individuals resulting in very few people volunteering for testing, esp. in the developing and under-developed world. An alternative approach that circumvents individual testing is the wastewater-based epidemiology. A state-of-the-art review of this method is provided in context of its utility for COVID-19 detection. This technique relies on collecting and testing samples from sewers and/or wastewater treatment plants for the presence of pathogens and then using that data to determine and predict the spread of the infection, thereby allowing the provision of appropriate containment and treatment steps. The study covers key aspects of wastewater-based epidemiology application for COVID-19 detection including its need, detailed process of detection and assessment, data analysis, economics and challenges to its application. Findings from a number of case studies are presented to elucidate the utility of this technique. It is clearly seen that WBE-based approach is a much better strategy as compared to individual testing and can be adopted to prevent further spread of Covid-19. The work is expected to further emphasize the application of this method for COVID (and other pandemic) detection and implementing containment strategies. This is clearly a much more economical and non-intrusive approach as compared to the individual testing. ==========================================================================================COPYRIGHTS©2021 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, as long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers.==========================================================================================","PeriodicalId":46495,"journal":{"name":"GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT-GJESM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"GLOBAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT-GJESM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22034/GJESM.2021.04.10","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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废水中新型冠状病毒检测的废水流行病学
整个世界正遭受100年来最严重的流行病的打击。截至2021年3月30日,已有超过1.28亿人感染该病毒,280万人死亡。确定材料阳性病例是遏制和治疗的第一步。然而,对个体进行检测是一项广泛、昂贵且耗时的工作。此外,社会禁忌也与感染者有关,导致很少有人自愿接受检测,特别是在发展中国家和欠发达国家。另一种绕过个人测试的方法是基于废水的流行病学。本文结合该方法在COVID-19检测中的应用,对其进行了最新评述。这种技术依赖于从下水道和/或废水处理厂收集和检测病原体的存在,然后利用这些数据确定和预测感染的传播,从而允许提供适当的遏制和处理步骤。本研究涵盖了基于废水的流行病学检测的需求、检测和评估的详细过程、数据分析、经济效益和应用挑战等关键方面。本文提出了一些案例研究的结果,以阐明该技术的实用性。显然,与个人检测相比,基于白细胞白蛋白的方法是一种更好的策略,可以用来防止Covid-19的进一步传播。预计这项工作将进一步强调该方法在COVID(和其他大流行)检测和实施遏制战略中的应用。与单个测试相比,这显然是一种更加经济和非侵入性的方法。========================================================================================== 版权©2021年作者(年代)。这是一篇根据知识共享署名协议(CC BY 4.0)发布的开放获取文章,该协议允许在任何媒体上不受限制地使用、分发和复制,只要引用原作者和来源。不需要许可从作者和出版商 .==========================================================================================
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