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Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants
- 1st Edition - July 30, 2023
- Editors: Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao Karri, Nikolaos Rousis, Emma Gracia-Lor
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 7 2 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 1 4 6 - 9
Wastewater-based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants discusses wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and its use in risk assessment and mo… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWastewater-based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants discusses wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and its use in risk assessment and monitoring of human exposure to hazardous pollutants and pathogens. The book explores the health impacts of organic and inorganic pollutants from pesticides, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, phthalates, personal care products, and endocrine disruptors in the wastewater environment. The book examines the application of wastewater-based epidemiology in determining health risk and exposure to infectious diseases caused by viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, parasites, and bacteria. Other topics include detection techniques, sampling techniques, analytical methods, biomarkers, and the use of biosensors in wastewater-based epidemiology studies.
- Presents evidence mapping to identify emerging areas in wastewater-based epidemiology studies
- Offers expansion and diversification strategies in pandemic conditions to serve immediate public health goals
- Explains the surveillance of the spread of pathogens through wastewater
Toxicologists, analytical and environmental chemists, environmental scientists, epidemiologists, public health professionals. government policy makers; healthcare professionals in disease control
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- About the editors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Wastewater-based epidemiology: Evidence mapping toward identifying emerging areas of research
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Material and methods
- 1.3. Results and discussion
- 1.4. Challenges and limitations
- 1.5. Conclusion
- Conflict of Interest
- Chapter 2. Moving beyond wastewater analysis toward epidemiology
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Drug consumption, metabolism, and excretion
- 2.3. Wastewater sampling and analysis
- 2.4. Beyond analysis toward epidemiology
- 2.5. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Sampling techniques in wastewater-based epidemiology approach
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Active sampling
- 3.3. Passive sampling
- 3.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Assessment of in-sample and in-sewer stability of biomarkers in wastewater-based epidemiology: an important step
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Methodology used to evaluate biomarker stability
- 4.3. In-sewer stabilities of biomarkers
- 4.4. In-sample stability of biomarkers and the selection of preservative methods
- 4.5. Factors affecting the degradation of biomarkers
- 4.6. Implications for wastewater-based epidemiology
- 4.7. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Population biomarkers for wastewater-based epidemiology
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Flow—the first proposed wastewater population biomarker
- 5.3. What makes a good Wastewater-based epidemiology population marker?
- 5.4. Summary and perspective: continuing the quest for identifying population biomarkers
- Chapter 6. Wastewater-based epidemiology through pharmaceuticals as biochemical markers and associated challenges
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Water fingerprinting through WBE: a new approach to evaluating public health
- 6.3. Biomarkers of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
- 6.4. Population biomarker: a paradigm for PPCPs prevalence
- 6.5. Limitations
- 6.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. The complexities associated with the detection of new psychoactive substances in wastewater
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Analytical methods
- 7.3. Considerations for future methods
- 7.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Wastewater-based epidemiology for assessing and monitoring human exposure to pesticides
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Pesticides groups
- 8.3. Analytical method
- 8.4. Stability of parent pesticides and their metabolites in wastewater
- 8.5. Human risk assessment
- 8.6. Limitations and future research needs
- 8.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Expansion and diversification of wastewater-based epidemiology strategies in pandemic conditions to serve immediate public health goals
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Materials and methods
- 9.3. Results and discussion
- 9.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Viral surveillance of wastewater as a promising tool to assess the spread of pathogens in the population: the experience of SARS-CoV-2
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Aim of the study
- 10.3. Material and methods
- 10.4. Results and discussion
- 10.5. Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 284
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 30, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443191725
- eBook ISBN: 9780443161469
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Mohammad Hadi Dehghani
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a Full Professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interest includes environmental science. He is an editorial board member, guest editor, and reviewer in many internal and international journals and is a member of several international science committees around the world. He has authored or edited 16 books and more than 230 full papers published in peer-reviewed journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, IranRK
Rama Rao Karri
Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a professor (senior assistant) in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He has over 18 years of experience in academia, industry, and research. He has published 200+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Technology of Brunei, IndiaNR
Nikolaos Rousis
Dr. Nikolaos Rousis is a Chemist and works as a Researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), University of Queensland, Australia. He was awarded his PhD at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy. His scientific research interests mainly focus on analytical and environmental chemistry and wastewater-based epidemiology. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in international journals and book chapters. He is also a reviewer for many international scientific journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), University of Queensland, AustraliaEG
Emma Gracia-Lor
Prof. Emma Gracia-Lor is a Professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry and part of the Faculty of Chemistry at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University Jaume I of Castellón (Spain), where she received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Her research is focused on analytical and environmental chemistry and wastewater-based epidemiology. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in international journals and book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry at Complutense University in Madrid, SpainRead Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants on ScienceDirect