Wastewater monitoring, surveillance and epidemiology: a review of terminology for a common understanding.

ABSTRACT: Response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic saw an unprecedented uptake in bottom-up efforts to incorporate community wastewater testing to inform public health. While not a new strategy, various specialized scientific advancements were achieved to establish links between wastewater concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) and public health outcomes. Maximizing public health benefit requires collaboration among a broad range of disciplinary experts, each bringing their own historical context to the central goal of protecting human health. One challenge has been a lack of shared terminology. Standardized terminology would provide common ground for this rapidly growing field. Based on the review herein, we recommend categorical usage of

SUBMITTER: Larsen DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8499728 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature