TY - JOUR
T1 - Making Waves: Collaboration in the time of SARS-CoV-2 - rapid development of an international co-operation and wastewater surveillance database to support public health decision-making.
AU - Lundy, Lian
AU - Fatta-Kassinos, Despo
AU - Slobodnik, Jaroslav
AU - Karaolia, Popi
AU - Cirka, Lubos
AU - Kreuzinger, Norbert
AU - Castiglioni, Sara
AU - Bijlsma, Lubertus
AU - Dulio, Valeria
AU - Deviller, Geneviève
AU - Lai, Foon Yin
AU - Alygizakis, Nikiforos
AU - Barneo, Manuela
AU - Baz-Lomba, Jose Antonio
AU - Béen, Frederic
AU - Cíchová, Marianna
AU - Conde-Pérez, Kelly
AU - Covaci, Adrian
AU - Donner, Erica
AU - Ficek, Andrej
AU - Hassard, Francis
AU - Hedström, Annelie
AU - Hernandez, Félix
AU - Janská, Veronika
AU - Jellison, Kristen
AU - Hofman, Jan
AU - Hill, Kelly
AU - Hong, Pei-Ying
AU - Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara
AU - Kolarević, Stoimir
AU - Krahulec, Jan
AU - Lambropoulou, Dimitra
AU - de Llanos, Rosa
AU - Mackuľak, Tomáš
AU - Martinez-García, Lorena
AU - Martínez, Francisco
AU - Medema, Gertjan
AU - Micsinai, Adrienn
AU - Myrmel, Mette
AU - Nasser, Mohammed
AU - Niederstätter, Harald
AU - Nozal, Leonor
AU - Oberacher, Herbert
AU - Očenášková, Věra
AU - Ogorzaly, Leslie
AU - Papadopoulos, Dimitrios
AU - Peinado, Beatriz
AU - Pitkänen, Tarja
AU - Poza, Margarita
AU - Rumbo-Feal, Soraya
AU - Sánchez, Maria Blanca
AU - Székely, Anna J
AU - Soltysova, Andrea
AU - Thomaidis, Nikolaos S
AU - Vallejo, Juan
AU - van Nuijs, Alexander
AU - Ware, Vassie
AU - Viklander, Maria
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-05-27
Acknowledgements: All authors wish to thank the WWTP operators for providing samples. LL, AH and MV would like to acknowledge the VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems) DRIZZLE – Centre for Stormwater Management (Grant no. 2016-05176) and the technical expertise provided by the Stormwater&Sewers network, Nireas-International Water Research Center of the University of Cyprus would like to thank the Sewerage Board of Limassol-Amathus (SBLA), the Sewerage Board of Nicosia (SBN) and the Paralimni Sewerage Board (PSB) for the provision of influent samples, for the purpose of performing this work. MPD wishes to thank COVIDBENS Inv04020 financed by EDAR Bens S.A, A Coruña, FYL wishes to thank Z Cetecioglu Gurol (KTH) and P Haglund (Umeå University) and TM would like to acknowledge financial support from APVV-19-0250, PP-COVID-20-0019, ASS8 and VIR-SCAN. Authors from the Univ Jaume LB, FH, MB and RdL acknowledge the financial support from Dirección General del Agua, Generalitat Valenciana, to develop the project "Covid_Wastewater", as well as the help E. Santateresa and N. Zamorano from FACSA, for the invaluable support in performing this work. RdL. was funded through a Beatriz Galindo Fellowship of the Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, Spanish Government (BEAGAL18/00042). TM wishes to thank the generous support of the Operational Program Integrated Infrastructure for the project "Strategic research in the field of SMART monitoring, treatment and preventive protection against coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) ", Project no. 313011ASS8 (co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund) and the project VIR-SCAN - Wastewater monitoring data as an early warning tool to alert COVID-19 in the population (EOSCsecretariat.eu has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Program call H2020-INFRAEOSC- 05-2018-2019, grant Agreement number 831644). SK (IBISS) acknowledges the financial support from Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia grant No 451-03-9/2021-14/ 200007.
PY - 2021/5/20
Y1 - 2021/5/20
N2 - The presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater was first reported in March 2020. Over the subsequent months, the potential for wastewater surveillance to contribute to COVID-19 mitigation programmes has been the focus of intense national and international research activities, gaining the attention of policy makers and the public. As a new application of an established methodology, focused collaboration between public health practitioners and wastewater researchers is essential to developing a common understanding on how, when and where the outputs of this non-invasive community-level approach can deliver actionable outcomes for public health authorities. Within this context, the NORMAN SCORE "SARS-CoV-2 in sewage" database provides a platform for rapid, open access data sharing, validated by the uploading of 276 data sets from nine countries to-date. Through offering direct access to underpinning meta-data sets (and describing its use in data interpretation), the NORMAN SCORE database is a resource for the development of recommendations on minimum data requirements for wastewater pathogen surveillance. It is also a tool to engage public health practitioners in discussions on use of the approach, providing an opportunity to build mutual understanding of the demand and supply for data and facilitate the translation of this promising research application into public health practice.
AB - The presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater was first reported in March 2020. Over the subsequent months, the potential for wastewater surveillance to contribute to COVID-19 mitigation programmes has been the focus of intense national and international research activities, gaining the attention of policy makers and the public. As a new application of an established methodology, focused collaboration between public health practitioners and wastewater researchers is essential to developing a common understanding on how, when and where the outputs of this non-invasive community-level approach can deliver actionable outcomes for public health authorities. Within this context, the NORMAN SCORE "SARS-CoV-2 in sewage" database provides a platform for rapid, open access data sharing, validated by the uploading of 276 data sets from nine countries to-date. Through offering direct access to underpinning meta-data sets (and describing its use in data interpretation), the NORMAN SCORE database is a resource for the development of recommendations on minimum data requirements for wastewater pathogen surveillance. It is also a tool to engage public health practitioners in discussions on use of the approach, providing an opportunity to build mutual understanding of the demand and supply for data and facilitate the translation of this promising research application into public health practice.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/669271
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0043135421003651
U2 - 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117167
DO - 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117167
M3 - Article
C2 - 34015748
SN - 0043-1354
VL - 199
SP - 117167
JO - Water research
JF - Water research
ER -