Identifying bellwether sewershed sites for sustainable disease surveillance in Bengaluru, India: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance emerged as an important tool as an important tool by providing data that are more representative of the population than case reporting, which is often biased towards individuals with health-seeking behaviour or access to healthcare. With changing phases of the pandemic, decreased testing, and varying viral shedding rates, it is crucial to have a robust, sustainable, and flexible wastewater surveillance system that can serve as an independent signal of disease outbreaks. We aimed to identify 'bellwether' sewershed sites for sustainable disease surveillance in Bengaluru, India.

Methods

We conducted this longitudinal study from December 2021 to January 2024 at 26 centralised sewershed sites in Bengaluru city (

SUBMITTER: Daniel RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12212118 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature