Building knowledge of university campus population dynamics to enhance near-to-source sewage surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 detection

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 806; no. Pt 1; p. 150406
• Main Authors: Sweetapple, Chris, Melville-Shreeve, Peter, Chen, Albert S., Grimsley, Jasmine M.S., Bunce, Joshua T., Gaze, William, Fielding, Sean, Wade, Matthew J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.02.2022; Published by Elsevier B.V
• Subjects: biomarkers; COVID-19; COVID-19 infection; disease transmission; England; environment; Humans; monitoring; Near-to-source; Normalisation; Pandemics; Population Dynamics; population size; public health; SARS-CoV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Sewage; Universities; Wastewater; Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring; Wastewater-based epidemiology; weather; England; COVID-19; Normalisation; SARS-CoV-2; Near-to-source; Wastewater-based epidemiology

Wastewater surveillance has been widely implemented for monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 during the global COVID-19 pandemic, and near-to-source monitoring is of particular interest for outbreak management in discrete populations. However, variation in population size poses a challenge to the triggering of...