Fundamentals of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology. Biomonitoring of Bacteria, Protozoa, COVID-19, and Other Viruses

It is common practice to evaluate wastewater to understand drug consumption, from antibiotics to illegal narcotics, and even to analyze dietary habits and trends. Evaluating contaminants in wastewater enables researchers, environmental scientists, and water quality experts to gain valuable information and data. Wastewater-based epidemiology is an emerging science that has proven to be a cost- and time-effective biomonitoring tool. This book provides a roadmap for detecting wastewater-borne pathogenic contaminants such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and others. It provides a basic, fundamental discussion of how sampling and monitoring of wastewater using epidemiological concepts and practices can aid in determining the presence of the COVID-19 virus in a community, for example, and may help predict future outbreaks.

Features

• Offers a unique discussion of the detection of bacteria, fungi, and COVID-19, and other viruses in wastewater

• Presents the fundamentals of wastewater chemistry and microbiology

• Explains biomonitoring, sampling, testing, and health surveillance in a practical manner

Fundamentals of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Biomonitoring of Bacteria, Fungi, COVID-19, and Other Viruses is an invaluable resource to a wide array of readers with varying interests and backgrounds in water science and public health.

CONTENTS

PART 1 Setting the Stage

Chapter 1 And What’s in the Pipes Will Tell

Chapter 2 Fundamental Epidemiology

PART 2 Statistical Methods

Chapter 3 Statistics and Biostatistics Review

Chapter 4 Basic Concepts

Chapter 5 Distribution

Chapter 6 Sampling—Measurement Variables

Chapter 7 Frequency Measures: Incidence, Prevalence,

and Mortality Rates

Chapter 8 Measures of Association and Public Health Impact

PART 3 Wastewater

Chapter 9 The Science of Wastewater

Chapter 10 Wastewater Spawned Infectious Disease

PART 4 Wastewater-Based Epidemiology

Chapter 11 Fundamentals of Biomonitoring, Monitoring, Sampling, and

Testing

Chapter 12 Wastewater Bacteria Sampling, Testing, and Analysis

Chapter 13 Wastewater Protozoa Sampling, Testing, and Analysis

Chapter 14 Wastewater Virus Sampling, Testing, and Analysis