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Shanks, O. Human Wastewater Surveillance: A New Opportunity for Microbial Source Tracking. International Water Assoc. Webinar: Traditional and molecular indicators to characterise sewage in wastewater-based epidemiology, Virtual, December 03, 2021.

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The webinar will provide an overview on microbial source tracking (MST) usage trends to support human wastewater surveillance.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and innovations in public health surveillance in the United States and across the world.  The ability to characterize trends in community infection via the study of local wastewater has reminded the public that sewer system monitoring is a valuable tool for infectious disease surveillance.  Additional research in this area identified the potential need to estimate the human waste level in wastewater sample to improve sewage surveillance data interpretation.  This webinar describes the use of human-associated microbial source tracking methodologies originally designed to characterize waste in recreational waters to support wastewater surveillance efforts.  This presentation should be of interest to scientists and stakeholders interested sewage surveillance for public health targets of interest and new applications for microbial source tracking methodologies.

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