Challenges in realising the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology to quantitatively monitor and predict the spread of disease

• Main Authors: Julian Faraway (Author), James Boxall-Clasby (Author), Edward J. Feil (Author), Marjorie J. Gibbon (Author), Oliver Hatfield (Author), Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern (Author), Theresa Smith (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: IWA Publishing, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Researchers around the world have demonstrated correlations between measurements of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater (WW) and case rates of COVID-19 derived from direct testing of individuals. This has raised concerns that wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) methods might be used to quantify the spread...