Wastewater monitoring in tourist cities as potential sentinel sites for near real-time dynamics of imported SARS-CoV-2 variants

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ผู้เขียน/บรรณาธิการ

กลุ่มสาขาการวิจัยเชิงกลยุทธ์

รายละเอียดสำหรับงานพิมพ์

รายชื่อผู้แต่ง: Sangsanont, Jatuwat; Rattanakul, Surapong; Makkaew, Prasert; Precha, Nopadol; Rukthanapitak, Pratchaya; Sresung, Montakarn; Siri, Yadpiroon; Kitajima, Masaaki; Takeda, Tomoko; Haramoto, Eiji; Puenpa, Jiratchaya; Wanlapakorn, Nasamon;

ผู้เผยแพร่: Elsevier

ปีที่เผยแพร่ (ค.ศ.): 2023

วารสาร: Science of the Total Environment (0048-9697)

Volume number: 860

หน้าแรก: 160317

นอก: 0048-9697

eISSN: 1879-1026

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85143272652&doi=10.1016%2fj.scitotenv.2022.160317&partnerID=40&md5=fb76c60721b1d873e054a696c573c2aa

ภาษา: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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บทคัดย่อ

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) complements the clinical surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants' distribution in populations. Many developed nations have established national and regional WBE systems; however, governance and budget constraints could be obstacles for low- and middle-income countries. An urgent need thus exists to identify hotspots to serve as sentinel sites for WBE. We hypothesized that representative wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in two international gateway cities, Bangkok and Phuket, Thailand, could be sentineled for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants to reflect the clinical distribution patterns at city level and serve as early indicators of new variants entering the country. Municipal wastewater samples (n = 132) were collected from eight representative municipal WWTPs in Bangkok and Phuket during 19 sampling events from October 2021 to March 2022, which were tested by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) using the US CDC N1 and N2 multiplex and variant (Alpha, Delta, and Omicron BA.1 and BA.2) singleplex assays. The variant detection ratios from Bangkok and Phuket followed similar trends to the national clinical testing data, and each variant's viral loads agreed with the daily new cases (3-d moving average). Omicron BA.1 was detected in Phuket wastewater prior to Bangkok, possibly due to Phuket's WWTPs serving tourist communities. We found that the Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 viral loads predominantly drove the SARS-CoV-2 resurgence. We also noted a shifting pattern in the Bangkok WBE from a 22-d early warning in early 2021 to a near real-time pattern in late 2021. The potential application of tourist hotspots for WBE to indicate the arrival of new variants and re-emerging or unprecedented infectious agents could support tourism-dependent economies by complementing the reduced clinical regulations while maintaining public health protection via wastewater surveillance. © 2022 The Authors

คำสำคัญ

Gateway cities, Lineage, Normalizer, Wastewater surveillance