This repository hosts guidance documents and resources developed by the PHA4GE Wastewater Surveillance Working Group. These documents address core challenges involved in designing effective wastewater surveillance strategies, analyzing wastewater pathogen sequencing and quantification data, and sharing this data with the global public health community.
As the wastewater surveillance field rapidly progresses, it can be difficult to keep track of the current state-of-the-art methods and consensus practices. Our working group seeks to provide fully open and up-to-date best practice standards and protocols for the wastewater surveillance community via this live document repository. Alongside these documents, we also provide example case studies, examinations of published work in which wastewater and environmental surveillance has been deployed, and how this compares with our guidance. We welcome suggestions from across the wastewater research and public health community, please see the Contributing section below for more information on how to contribute.
- Case Study 1 - SARS-CoV-2 wastewater seqeuencing and analysis in San Diego, USA
- Case Study 2 - S. typhi environmental surveillance in Blantyre, Malawi
- Case Study 3 - Mpox wastewater detection and quantification across Spain
- Case Study 4 - Surveillance of multiple respiratory pathogens (including SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A) in Bengaluru, India
These documents are intended as a live, open community resource and contributions to the documents are more than welcome. To propose a change, we recommend making a GitHub Issue (here) for this public repository describing the requested modifications and/or additions. Alternatively, if you're interested in making a requested change yourself, please go ahead and open a pull-request with the proposed changes. We'll work to incorporate these suggestions as quickly as possible, in accordance with PHA4GE group member recommendations.
If you're interested in becoming part of our group please free to join as a member of PHA4GE. Our working group meets bi-weekly on Thursdays.