Increasing the Utility of Wastewater-Based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action: A Phase 2 Report

by Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked widespread implementation of wastewater surveillance in communities across the United States to help track the spread of the disease. In contrast to clinical laboratory testing that tracks individual cases of infection, wastewater surveillance provides a way to measure the amount of DNA from pathogens coming from homes, businesses, and other institutions that share a sewer system. To help coordinate and centralize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309716209
• ISBN13: 9780309716208
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 144 Pages