Tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on viral gastroenteritis through wastewater-based retrospective analyses.
Aichivirus
Norovirus
Public health intervention
Rotavirus
Sapovirus
Wastewater surveillance
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 Dec 2023
20 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
01
05
2023
revised:
21
08
2023
accepted:
23
08
2023
medline:
15
11
2023
pubmed:
27
8
2023
entrez:
26
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic possibly disrupted the circulation and seasonality of gastroenteritis viruses (e.g., Norovirus (NoV), Sapovirus (SaV), group A rotavirus (ARoV), and Aichivirus (AiV)). Despite the growing application of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), there remains a lack of sufficient investigations into the actual impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of gastroenteritis viruses. In this study, we measured NoV GI and GII, SaV, ARoV, and AiV RNA concentrations in 296 influent wastewater samples collected from three wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Sapporo, Japan between October 28, 2018 and January 12, 2023 using the highly sensitive EPISENS™ method. The detection ratios of SaV and ARoV after May 2020 (SaV: 49.8 % (134/269), ARoV: 57.4 % (151/263)) were significantly lower than those before April 2020 (SaV: 93.9 % (31/33), ARoV: 97.0 % (32/33); SaV: p < 3.5×10
Identifiants
pubmed: 37633393
pii: S0048-9697(23)05182-3
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166557
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Wastewater
0
RNA
63231-63-0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
166557Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest Masaaki Kitajima received research funding from Shionogi & Co., Ltd. and AdvanSentinel, Inc. and patent royalties from Shionogi & Co., Ltd. Satoshi Okabe received research funding from Shionogi & Co., Ltd. and AdvanSentinel, Inc. Hiroki Ando and Warish Ahmed have no competing interests to declare.