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da Silva CCM, Santos CRDL, Céleri EP, Salles D, Fardin JM, Pussi KF, Gomes DCDO, Ribeiro VDO, Konrad-Moraes LC, Neitzke-Abreu HC, Júnior VL. An Epidemiological Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in the Sewage System of a Higher Education Institution. Ann Glob Health 2024; 90:50. [PMID: 39139447 PMCID: PMC11319693 DOI: 10.5334/aogh.4413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024] Open
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Background: The World Health Organization declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2023, three years after the adoption of global emergency measures. Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage underscores its importance due to its effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, highlighting the need to prioritize research on water resources and sanitation. Objectives: The aim of this study was to conduct an epidemiological assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in the sewage system of a higher education institution located in Vitória Espírito Santo State, Maruípe campus. Methods: Over a period of 66 days, from February 6 to April 12, 2023, 15 samples were collected. Each sample consisted of 1 L, collected in 1 hour, with 250 mL collected every 15 minutes. The samples were characterized by assessing their appearance, and pH was measured using a Horiba U-50 multiparameter probe. The extracted RNA was subjected to RT-qPCR using the Allplex™ 2019-nCovAssay Seegene kit. Results: The samples exhibited a cloudy appearance with impurities, and the pH ranged from 6.35 to 8.17. Among the evaluated samples, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in two, and, by comparing this with the epidemiological bulletin issued by the State Health Department, an increase in cases in the state was observed during the collection period of these samples. Conclusions: Sewage monitoring proved to be an important tool in this post-pandemic period, serving as an alert and prevention mechanism for the population in relation to new outbreaks. Furthermore, it represents a low-cost mapping strategy and extensive testing of a population, aligning with the studies presented at the beginning of the pandemic. We recommend specific adjustments considering distinct populations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carmem Cícera Maria da Silva
- PostGraduate Program in Chemistry, Center for Exact Sciences, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
- Infectious Diseases Nucleous, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- PostGraduate Program in Chemistry, Center for Exact Sciences, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Infectious Diseases Nucleous, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Infectious Diseases Nucleous, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- Graduate Program Environmental and Sanitary Engineering. Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- Graduate Program Environmental and Sanitary Engineering. Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- PostGraduate Program in Chemistry, Center for Exact Sciences, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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Mainardi PH, Bidoia ED. Challenges and emerging perspectives of an international SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in wastewater. AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2021; 93:e20210163. [PMID: 34878048 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202120210163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus capable to infect humans and cause the severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19, a disease that has been causing huge impacts across the Earth. COVID-19 patients, including mild, pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, were often seen to contain infectious fragments of SARS-CoV-2 in feces and urine samples. Therefore, studies to detect the new coronavirus in wastewater, which collect and concentrate human excreta, have been extremely useful as a viral tracking tool in communities. This type of monitoring, in addition to serve as a non-invasive early warning of COVID-19 outbreaks, would provide better predictions about the SARS-CoV-2 spread and strongly contribute to maintenance the global health. Although current methods to detect viruses in wastewater, based on molecular RT-PCR and RT-qPCR techniques, were considered as reliable and provided accurate qualitative and quantitative results, they have been facing considerable challenges concerning the SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. In this review, the methods used to detect the SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and the challenges to implement an international viral monitoring network were described. The article also addressed the emerging perspectives associated with the SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological surveillance in this environment and the importance of a worldwide collaboration to generate and disseminate the detection results.
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- Pedro H Mainardi
- Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho /UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biologia Geral e Aplicada, Av. 24A, 1515, Bela Vista, 13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho /UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biologia Geral e Aplicada, Av. 24A, 1515, Bela Vista, 13506900 Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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Venturelli A, Vitolo M, Albini A, Boriani G. How did COVID-19 affect medical and cardiology journals? A pandemic in literature. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 2021; 22:840-847. [PMID: 34482327 PMCID: PMC10100635 DOI: 10.2459/jcm.0000000000001245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The spreading speed of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the medical community to produce efforts in updating and sharing the evidence about this new disease, trying to preserve the accuracy of the data but at the same time avoiding the potentially harmful delay from discovery to implementation. The aim of our analysis was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical literature in terms of proportion of COVID-19-related published papers and temporal patterns of publications within a sample of general/internal medicine and cardiology journals. METHODS We searched through PubMed scientific papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 January 2021 about COVID-19 in ten major medical journals, of which five were in general/internal medicine and five in the cardiology field. We analyzed the proportion of COVID-19-related papers, and we examined temporal trends in the number of published papers. RESULTS Overall, the proportion of COVID-19-related papers was 18.5% (1986/10 756). This proportion was higher among the five selected general/internal medicine journals, compared with cardiology journals (23.8% vs 9.5%). The vast majority of papers were not original articles; in particular, in cardiology journals, there were 28% 'original articles', 17% 'review articles' and 55.1% 'miscellaneous', compared with 20.2%, 5.1% and 74.7% in general/internal medicine journals, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Our analysis highlights the big impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international scientific literature. General and internal medicine journals were mainly involved, with cardiology journals only at a later time.
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- Andrea Venturelli
- Cardiology Division, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Policlinico di Modena
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- Cardiology Division, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Policlinico di Modena
- Clinical and Experimental Medicine PhD Program, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Cardiology Division, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Policlinico di Modena
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- Cardiology Division, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Policlinico di Modena
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Severino P, D’Amato A, Pucci M, Infusino F, Adamo F, Birtolo LI, Netti L, Montefusco G, Chimenti C, Lavalle C, Maestrini V, Mancone M, Chilian WM, Fedele F. Ischemic Heart Disease Pathophysiology Paradigms Overview: From Plaque Activation to Microvascular Dysfunction. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E8118. [PMID: 33143256 PMCID: PMC7663258 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21218118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Ischemic heart disease still represents a large burden on individuals and health care resources worldwide. By conventions, it is equated with atherosclerotic plaque due to flow-limiting obstruction in large-medium sized coronary arteries. However, clinical, angiographic and autoptic findings suggest a multifaceted pathophysiology for ischemic heart disease and just some cases are caused by severe or complicated atherosclerotic plaques. Currently there is no well-defined assessment of ischemic heart disease pathophysiology that satisfies all the observations and sometimes the underlying mechanism to everyday ischemic heart disease ward cases is misleading. In order to better examine this complicated disease and to provide future perspectives, it is important to know and analyze the pathophysiological mechanisms that underline it, because ischemic heart disease is not always determined by atherosclerotic plaque complication. Therefore, in order to have a more complete comprehension of ischemic heart disease we propose an overview of the available pathophysiological paradigms, from plaque activation to microvascular dysfunction.
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- Paolo Severino
- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA;
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- Department of Clinical, Internal, Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161 Rome, Italy; (P.S.); (A.D.); (M.P.); (F.I.); (F.A.); (L.I.B.); (L.N.); (G.M.); (C.C.); (C.L.); (V.M.); (M.M.)
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