Luke S. Hillary

TL;DR: The likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 being transmitted via feces or urine appears much lower due to the lower relative amounts of virus present in feces/urine, and the biggest risk of transmission will occur in clinical and care home settings where secondary handling of people and urine/fecal matter occurs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how monitoring wastewater from urban areas can be used to detect the arrival and subsequent decline of pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2.

TL;DR: Viral indicators are suitable for the long-term monitoring of viral contamination in freshwater and marine environments and should be implemented within monitoring programmes to provide a holistic assessment of microbiological water quality and wastewater-based epidemiology, improve current risk management strategies and protect global human health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a longitudinal analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA prevalence in sewage across six major urban centres in the UK (total population equivalent 3 million) by q(RT-)PCR and viral genome sequencing.

TL;DR: Quantitative, emerging digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and isothermal amplification approaches are capable of quantification of multiple targets and hence are suitable for long-term monitoring and source tracking of enteric viruses in the aquatic environment.