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Naughton CC, Roman FA, Alvarado AGF, Tariqi AQ, Deeming MA, Kadonsky KF, Bibby K, Bivins A, Medema G, Ahmed W, Katsivelis P, Allan V, Sinclair R, Rose JB. Show us the data: global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring efforts, equity, and gaps. FEMS Microbes 2023; 4:xtad003. [PMID: 37333436 PMCID: PMC10117741 DOI: 10.1093/femsmc/xtad003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
Abstract
A year since the declaration of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there were over 110 million cases and 2.5 million deaths. Learning from methods to track community spread of other viruses such as poliovirus, environmental virologists and those in the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) field quickly adapted their existing methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Unlike COVID-19 case and mortality data, there was not a global dashboard to track wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA worldwide. This study provides a 1-year review of the "COVIDPoops19" global dashboard of universities, sites, and countries monitoring SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Methods to assemble the dashboard combined standard literature review, Google Form submissions, and daily, social media keyword searches. Over 200 universities, 1400 sites, and 55 countries with 59 dashboards monitored wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 RNA. However, monitoring was primarily in high-income countries (65%) with less access to this valuable tool in low- and middle-income countries (35%). Data were not widely shared publicly or accessible to researchers to further inform public health actions, perform meta-analysis, better coordinate, and determine equitable distribution of monitoring sites. For WBE to be used to its full potential during COVID-19 and beyond, show us the data.
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Affiliation(s)
- Colleen C Naughton
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States
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- KWR Water Research Institute, Groningenhaven 7, 3433 PE Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
- Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands
- Michigan State University, 1405 S Harrison Rd, East-Lansing, MI 48823, United States
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, QLD 4102, Australia
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- PATH 2201 Westlake Avenue, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98121, United States
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- Schools of Public Health and Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, United States
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States
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McClary-Gutierrez JS, Aanderud ZT, Al-Faliti M, Duvallet C, Gonzalez R, Guzman J, Holm RH, Jahne MA, Kantor RS, Katsivelis P, Kuhn KG, Langan LM, Mansfeldt C, McLellan SL, Grijalva LMM, Murnane KS, Naughton CC, Packman AI, Paraskevopoulos S, Radniecki TS, Roman FA, Shrestha A, Stadler LB, Steele JA, Swalla BM, Vikesland P, Wartell B, Wilusz CJ, Wong JCC, Boehm AB, Halden RU, Bibby K, Vela JD. Standardizing data reporting in the research community to enhance the utility of open data for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance. Environ Sci (Camb) 2021; 9:10.1039/d1ew00235j. [PMID: 34567579 PMCID: PMC8459677 DOI: 10.1039/d1ew00235j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in wastewater is being rapidly developed and adopted as a public health monitoring tool worldwide. With wastewater surveillance programs being implemented across many different scales and by many different stakeholders, it is critical that data collected and shared are accompanied by an appropriate minimal amount of metainformation to enable meaningful interpretation and use of this new information source and intercomparison across datasets. While some databases are being developed for specific surveillance programs locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, common globally-adopted data standards have not yet been established within the research community. Establishing such standards will require national and international consensus on what metainformation should accompany SARS-CoV-2 wastewater measurements. To establish a recommendation on minimum information to accompany reporting of SARS-CoV-2 occurrence in wastewater for the research community, the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Coordination Network on Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 hosted a workshop in February 2021 with participants from academia, government agencies, private companies, wastewater utilities, public health laboratories, and research institutes. This report presents the primary two outcomes of the workshop: (i) a recommendation on the set of minimum meta-information that is needed to confidently interpret wastewater SARS-CoV-2 data, and (ii) insights from workshop discussions on how to improve standardization of data reporting.
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- Jill S McClary-Gutierrez
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
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- Orange County Public Health Laboratory, Newport Beach, CA, USA
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- Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, University of Louisville, 302 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY, 40202, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience, Louisiana State University Health - Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health - Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA
- Louisiana Addiction Research Center, Louisiana State University Health - Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern Center for Water Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA, USA
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- Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Costa Mesa, CA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- OneWaterOneHealth, Arizona State University Foundation, Tempe, AZ, USA
- AquaVitas, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
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