Wastewater-based epidemiology surveillance as an early warning system for SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia.

Autor: Murni IK; Center for Child Health - Pediatric Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.; Child Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Oktaria V; Center for Child Health - Pediatric Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.; Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., McCarthy DT; Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Public Health Microbiology Lab (EPHM Lab), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria Australia.; School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia., Supriyati E; Center for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Nuryastuti T; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Handley A; Medicines Development for Global Health, Southbank, Victoria Australia.; Enteric Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia., Donato CM; Enteric Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.; Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia., Wiratama BS; Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Dinari R; Center for Child Health - Pediatric Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Laksono IS; Center for Child Health - Pediatric Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.; Child Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Thobari JA; Center for Child Health - Pediatric Research Office, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia., Bines JE; Enteric Diseases Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.; Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.; Department of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Jul 18; Vol. 19 (7), pp. e0307364. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 18 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307364
Abstrakt: Background: Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) surveillance has been proposed as an early warning system (EWS) for community SARS-CoV-2 transmission. However, there is limited data from low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study aimed to assess the ability of WBE surveillance to detect SARS-CoV-2 in formal and informal environments in Indonesia using different methods of sample collection, to compare WBE data with patterns of clinical cases of COVID-19 within the relevant communities, and to assess the WBE potential to be used as an EWS for SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks within a community.
Materials and Methods: We conducted WBE surveillance in three districts in Yogyakarta province, Indonesia, over eleven months (27 July 2021 to 7 January 2022 [Delta wave]; 18 January to 3 June 2022 [Omicron wave]). Water samples using grab, and/or passive sampling methods and soil samples were collected either weekly or fortnightly. RNA was extracted from membrane filters from processed water samples and directly from soil. Reverse-transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was performed to detect the SARS-CoV-2 N and ORF1ab genes.
Results: A total of 1,582 samples were collected. Detection rates of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater reflected the incidence of community cases, with rates of 85% at the peak to 2% at the end of the Delta wave and from 94% to 11% during the Omicron wave. A 2-week lag time was observed between the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and increasing cases in the corresponding community.
Conclusion: WBE surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia was effective in monitoring patterns of cases of COVID-19 and served as an early warning system, predicting the increasing incidence of COVID-19 cases in the community.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Databáze: MEDLINE