Wastewater surveillance of rotavirus, norovirus, and hepatitis a virus in the Middle East and North Africa Region: a systematic review
Mariam Mroweh, Laura Hergelian, Bassel Serrieh, Aya Youssef, Maria Santana-Garces, Kyle Crooker, Marcus Zervos, Paul Kilgore, Nada M. Melhem · 2025
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Description
Mariam Mroweh and co-authors review wastewater monitoring for three gut viruses across the Middle East and North Africa. Their 2025 review covers rotavirus, norovirus, and hepatitis A virus, all causes of diarrhea or liver illness. Watching sewage can warn of outbreaks early, since it captures a whole town's infections at once, but the method is little used for these viruses in that region.
The team searched six databases for studies from 2014 to 2024 that used wastewater to detect the three viruses there. Work on treatment efficiency or with thin sampling data was left out. The review takes stock of what exists and where surveillance should grow.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mariam Mroweh, Laura Hergelian, Bassel Serrieh, Aya Youssef, Maria Santana-Garces, Kyle Crooker, Marcus Zervos, Paul Kilgore, Nada M. Melhem |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |