Surveillance of public health pathogens in Lagos wastewater canals: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is already being adopted for the surveillance of health conditions of communities and shows great potential for the monitoring of infectious pathogens of public health importance. There is however paucity of robust data to support extensive WBE in Nigeria. This study evaluated the prevalence of clinically relevant infectious pathogens and provided antimicrobial resistance profiles of bacteria pathogens in wastewater canals in Lagos State at a single point in time.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional survey of wastewater canals in 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Lagos State for detection of bacteria pathogens of public health importance including non-tuberculous mycobacteria and SARS-Cov-2 virus using cultural analysis and conv

SUBMITTER: Chukwu EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11670414 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature