Making Waves: Collaboration in the time of SARS-CoV-2 - rapid development of an international co-operation and wastewater surveillance database to support public health decision-making.
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Lundy, LianFatta-Kassinos, Despo
Slobodnik, Jaroslav
Karaolia, Popi
Cirka, Lubos
Kreuzinger, Norbert
Castiglioni, Sara
Bijlsma, Lubertus
Dulio, Valeria
Deviller, Geneviève
Lai, Foon Yin
Alygizakis, Nikiforos
Barneo, Manuela
Baz-Lomba, Jose Antonio
Béen, Frederic
Cíchová, Marianna
Conde-Pérez, Kelly
Covaci, Adrian
Donner, Erica
Ficek, Andrej
Hassard, Francis
Hedström, Annelie
Hernandez, Félix
Janská, Veronika
Jellison, Kristen
Hofman, Jan
Hill, Kelly
Hong, Pei-Ying

Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara
Kolarević, Stoimir
Krahulec, Jan
Lambropoulou, Dimitra
de Llanos, Rosa
Mackuľak, Tomáš
Martinez-García, Lorena
Martínez, Francisco
Medema, Gertjan
Micsinai, Adrienn
Myrmel, Mette
Nasser, Mohammed
Niederstätter, Harald
Nozal, Leonor
Oberacher, Herbert
Očenášková, Věra
Ogorzaly, Leslie
Papadopoulos, Dimitrios
Peinado, Beatriz
Pitkänen, Tarja
Poza, Margarita
Rumbo-Feal, Soraya
Sánchez, Maria Blanca
Székely, Anna J
Soltysova, Andrea
Thomaidis, Nikolaos S
Vallejo, Juan
van Nuijs, Alexander
Ware, Vassie
Viklander, Maria
KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) DivisionEnvironmental Microbial Safety and Biotechnology Lab
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center (WDRC)
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2021-04-22Online Publication Date
2021-04-22Print Publication Date
2021-07Embargo End Date
2023-05-20Submitted Date
2021-01-03Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/669271
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The presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater was first reported in March 2020. Over the subsequent months, the potential for wastewater surveillance to contribute to COVID-19 mitigation programmes has been the focus of intense national and international research activities, gaining the attention of policy makers and the public. As a new application of an established methodology, focused collaboration between public health practitioners and wastewater researchers is essential to developing a common understanding on how, when and where the outputs of this non-invasive community-level approach can deliver actionable outcomes for public health authorities. Within this context, the NORMAN SCORE "SARS-CoV-2 in sewage" database provides a platform for rapid, open access data sharing, validated by the uploading of 276 data sets from nine countries to-date. Through offering direct access to underpinning meta-data sets (and describing its use in data interpretation), the NORMAN SCORE database is a resource for the development of recommendations on minimum data requirements for wastewater pathogen surveillance. It is also a tool to engage public health practitioners in discussions on use of the approach, providing an opportunity to build mutual understanding of the demand and supply for data and facilitate the translation of this promising research application into public health practice.Citation
Lundy, L., Fatta-Kassinos, D., Slobodnik, J., Karaolia, P., Cirka, L., Kreuzinger, N., … Deviller, G. (2021). Making Waves: Collaboration in the time of SARS-CoV-2 - rapid development of an international co-operation and wastewater surveillance database to support public health decision-making. Water Research, 199, 117167. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2021.117167Sponsors
All authors wish to thank the WWTP operators for providing samples. LL, AH and MV would like to acknowledge the VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) DRIZZLE – Centre for Stormwater Management (Grant no. 2016-05176) and the technical expertise provided by the Stormwater&Sewers network, Nireas-International Water Research Center of the University of Cyprus would like to thank the Sewerage Board of Limassol-Amathus (SBLA), the Sewerage Board of Nicosia (SBN) and the Paralimni Sewerage Board (PSB) for the provision of influent samples, for the purpose of performing this work. MPD wishes to thank COVIDBENS Inv04020 financed by EDAR Bens S.A, A Coruña, FYL wishes to thank Z Cetecioglu Gurol (KTH) and P Haglund (Umeå University) and TM would like to acknowledge financial support from APVV-19-0250, PP-COVID-20-0019, ASS8 and VIR-SCAN. Authors from the Univ Jaume LB, FH, MB and RdL acknowledge the financial support from Dirección General del Agua, Generalitat Valenciana, to develop the project "Covid_Wastewater", as well as the help E. Santateresa and N. Zamorano from FACSA, for the invaluable support in performing this work. RdL. was funded through a Beatriz Galindo Fellowship of the Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, Spanish Government (BEAGAL18/00042). TM wishes to thank the generous support of the Operational Program Integrated Infrastructure for the project "Strategic research in the field of SMART monitoring, treatment and preventive protection against coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) ", Project no. 313011ASS8 (co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund) and the project VIR-SCAN - Wastewater monitoring data as an early warning tool to alert COVID-19 in the population (EOSCsecretariat.eu has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Program call H2020-INFRAEOSC- 05-2018-2019, grant Agreement number 831644). SK (IBISS) acknowledges the financial support from Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia grant No 451-03-9/2021-14/ 200007.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Water researchPubMed ID
34015748Additional Links
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0043135421003651ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.watres.2021.117167
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