Dynamic SARS-CoV-2 surveillance model combining seroprevalence and wastewater concentrations for post-vaccine disease burden estimates

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BACKGROUND: Despite wide scale assessments, it remains unclear how large-scale severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination affected the wastewater concentration of the virus or the overall disease burden as measured by hospitalization rates.

METHODS: We used weekly SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration with a stratified random sampling of seroprevalence, and linked vaccination and hospitalization data, from April 2021-August 2021 in Jefferson County, Kentucky (USA). Our susceptible ( S ), vaccinated ( V ), variant-specific infected ( I 1 and I 2 ), recovered ( R ), and seropositive ( T ) model ( S V I 2 R T ) tracked prevalence longitudinally. This was related to wastewater concentration.

RESULTS: Here we show the 64% county vaccination rate translate into about a 61% decrease in SARS-CoV-2 incidence. The estimated effect of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant emergence is a 24-fold increase of infection counts, which correspond to an over 9-fold increase in wastewater concentration. Hospitalization burden and wastewater concentration have the strongest correlation (r = 0.95) at 1 week lag.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study underscores the importance of continuing environmental surveillance post-vaccine and provides a proof-of-concept for environmental epidemiology monitoring of infectious disease for future pandemic preparedness.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:4

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Communications medicine - 4(2024), 1 vom: 09. Apr., Seite 70

Sprache:

Englisch

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Holm, Rochelle H [VerfasserIn]
Rempala, Grzegorz A [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Boseung [VerfasserIn]
Brick, J Michael [VerfasserIn]
Amraotkar, Alok R [VerfasserIn]
Keith, Rachel J [VerfasserIn]
Rouchka, Eric C [VerfasserIn]
Chariker, Julia H [VerfasserIn]
Palmer, Kenneth E [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Ted [VerfasserIn]
Bhatnagar, Aruni [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s43856-024-00494-y

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NLM370837169