Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Assessment and Surveillance, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Monitoring and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2027 | Viewed by 85
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Interests: bioinformatics; wastewater-based epidemiology; biomarker detection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is rapidly evolving from a tool mainly associated with COVID-19 monitoring into a broader framework for integrated public health and environmental surveillance. Recent advances in multiplex PCR, wastewater genomics, metagenomic sequencing, and data-driven modeling are making it increasingly feasible to monitor multiple pathogens and chemical biomarkers simultaneously, improve signal normalization and interpretation, and translate wastewater data into earlier and more actionable public health intelligence.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent methodological, analytical, and translational advances in wastewater-based epidemiology and wastewater and environmental surveillance. We welcome original research and review articles addressing multi-pathogen surveillance of respiratory, enteric, and emerging pathogens; antimicrobial resistance and resistome profiling; wastewater genomics and variant tracking; biomarker-based assessment of pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, PFAS, and other environmental contaminants; and integrative approaches that combine wastewater, clinical, demographic, and environmental data. Contributions focused on sampling strategy, quality assurance, normalization, uncertainty analysis, cross-site comparability, and machine learning for trend detection or forecasting are particularly encouraged.
We also invite submissions that examine how WBE can better support real-world public health decision making, including early warning systems, outbreak preparedness, One Health surveillance, environmental justice, and governance, ethics, and privacy considerations. Interdisciplinary contributions from environmental science, epidemiology, microbiology, analytical chemistry, bioinformatics, data science, and public policy are especially welcome.
Dr. Zhenyu Wu
Prof. Dr. Jason Levy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)
- wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES)
- multi-pathogen surveillance
- public health surveillance
- wastewater genomics
- metagenomic sequencing
- digital PCR
- antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- One Health
- chemical biomarkers
- community exposure assessment
- data normalization
- epidemiological modeling
- machine learning
- early warning systems
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