Research progress on the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and early warning system from a community health perspective

VernacularTitle:基于社区健康水平的新型冠状病毒污水流行病学监测与预警研究进展
Author: Zunong JIAWULAN ¹ ; Amaerjiang NUBIYA ; Huidi XIAO ; Yifei HU
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1. 首都医科大学公共卫生学院儿少卫生与妇幼保健学系，北京　100069
Keywords: COVID-19; Epidemic; Coronavirus; Wastewater-based epidemiology; Public health surveillance
From: Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine 2021;55(8):1016-1021
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: The continuously spreading of SARS-CoV-2 poses a threat not only to public health but also to all aspects of socio-economics. Current public health measures are costly and have potential health risks, thus, it is imminent that developing efficient and economical early warning surreillance tools from a public health perspective. In this review, we summarized the current COVID-19 epidemiological surveillance measures and the efficiency, economic, and cutting edge of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). The WBE-based surveillance is organized and reviewed from three aspects: early warning system for the timing of epidemic, routine epidemic surveillance, and parameters determination of predicting epidemiological models of COVID-19. It reveals the application value of WBE as an early warning and surveillance system of public health, and then, discussing its current weakness and strength, adding literature for a WBE-based surveillance system for COVID-19 epidemic in China.