Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Assessment
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 4543
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater analysis; LC-MS/MS; method uncertainties
Interests: water and wastewater treatment; advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); physicochemical processes; photocatalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), is a complementary method to traditional monitoring approaches for monitoring chemical use and exposure in a population. It can provide an estimate of the total use of substances including illicit and legal drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and personal care products at the level of population in near real-time conditions. The approach operates based on the fact that after consumption/exposure, biomarkers—drugs and their metabolites—excreted into toilets and flushed into urban sewer networks can be measured in raw wastewater samples. Thus, by sampling at the influent of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and analyzing suitable biomarker concentrations, the consumption of the substances can be back-calculated, combining with the flow rate, catchment population and pharmacokinetic data of the biomarkers. WBE techniques have recently begun to provide insights into diseases (COVID-19, gout, diabetes, and cancer) and lifestyles (food, nutrition).
This Special Issue welcomes research papers on various aspects of WBE, including applications of WBE in chemical use/exposure, reviews of WBE methodology, uncertainty analysis, etc. We encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work and collaborative research on the identification of new biomarkers for WBE and thetriangulating WBE data with other data sources. We are especially interested in potential submissions that focus on COVID-19 and other diseases.
Dr. Qiuda Zheng
Dr. Zacharias Frontistis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wastewater analysis
- wastewater-based epidemiology
- health risk assessment
- COVID-19
- substance use