Wastewater Surveillance of Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 705
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious disease epidemiology; antibiotic resistance; enteric viruses; wastewater-based epidemiology
Interests: water microbiology; fecal contamination; microbial source tracking; drinking water; surface water; AMR; ARG; culture-based method; qPCR; dPCR; metagenomics; whole genome sequencing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wastewater surveillance is currently attracting a lot of interest as an economical and non-invasive way to understand the prevalence of pathogens in a community. Viral, protozoan, and bacterial pathogens harboring antibiotic resistance genes are shed in feces and in other human excretions, which ultimately reach wastewater and can be analyzed to determine population-level infection prevalence. In addition, wastewater surveillance can also help to detect pathogens that are currently unknown to cause human diseases. The detection of such pathogens is likely to require the optimization of existing methods or the development of new techniques. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes original research articles and systematic reviews on the wastewater surveillance of all viral, protozoan, and bacterial pathogens as well as antibiotic resistance genes and methods to detect such pathogens in wastewater.
Dr. Sarmila Tandukar
Dr. Ananda Tiwari
Dr. Ocean Thakali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- enteric viruses
- SARS-CoV-2
- VOCs
- monkeypox
- antibiotic resistance
- influenza
- Dengue
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