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Exposure to environmental pollutants: A mini-review on the application of wastewater-based epidemiology approach
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is considered an innovative and promising tool for estimating community exposure to a wide range of chemical and...
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Pervasive structural racism in environmental epidemiology
BackgroundEpistemological biases in environmental epidemiology prevent the full understanding of how racism’s societal impacts directly influence...
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Environmental epidemiology in a crossfire
Two tendencies have emerged in environmental epidemiology that hamper the translation of research findings into prevention of environmental hazards....
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Wastewater-based epidemiology: a new frontier for tracking environmental persistence and community transmission of COVID-19
Recent research in many parts of the world has pointed towards evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both treated and raw municipal wastewater discharged by...
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Co-creating a local environmental epidemiology study: the case of citizen science for investigating air pollution and related health risks in Barcelona, Spain
BackgroundWhile the health risks of air pollution attract considerable attention, both scholarly and within the general population, citizens are...
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SARS-COV-2/COVID-19: scenario, epidemiology, adaptive mutations, and environmental factors
The coronavirus pandemic of 2019 has already exerted an enormous impact. For over a year, the worldwide pandemic has ravaged the whole globe, with...
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Environmental epidemiology and neurological manifestations of dengue serotypes with special inference on molecular trends, virus detection, and pathogenicity
The emergence of new viruses is a matter of significant concern in the current decade. It has dazed the indigenous healthcare systems in various...
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A multi-pollutant model: a method suitable for studying complex relationships in environmental epidemiology
Most of the models developed to study the effects of pollutants on the health of people are single input and single outcome while adjusting for other...
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Evaluating county-level lung cancer incidence from environmental radiation exposure, PM2.5, and other exposures with regression and machine learning models
Characterizing the interplay between exposures sha** the human exposome is vital for uncovering the etiology of complex diseases. For example,...
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Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater matrix: a review
SARS-CoV-2 is the agent responsible for the global pandemic sickness, COVID-19. It is an enveloped virus that belongs to the family Coronaviridae....
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Nine decades of data on environmental chemical pollutant exposure in dogs: a bibliometric analysis
In recent decades, a global concern associated with environmental chemical contamination has emerged as an important risk factor for the development...
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Emerging Pollutants in Sewage Sludge and Soils
This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils. It traces the latest research and new trends on the...
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Exposing additional authors who suppress evidence about radiation-induced thyroid cancer in children: a Comment adding to Tsuda et al.’s response to Schüz et al. (2023)
BackgroundThe need to call out and expose authors for their persistence in improperly using epidemiology has been previously noted. Tsuda et al. have...
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Temporal study of wastewater surveillance from September 2020 to March 2021: an estimation of COVID-19 patients in Lahore, Pakistan
The first aim of study was to quantify the viral load in the wastewater samples by RT-qPCR testing in Lahore population to estimate the number of...
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Response to Toshihide Tsuda, Yumiko Miyano and Eiji Yamamoto [1]
BackgroundIn August 2021, we published in Environmental Health a Toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods with the goal of providing an...
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Biotechnological Approaches in Remediation of Arsenic from Soil and Water
Arsenic contamination in soil and water poses significant environmental and health risks. This chapter explores biotechnological approaches for...
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Wastewater Surveillance for Covid-19 Management
This book reviews the recent challenges and future perspectives involved in the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for COVID-19. The book aims to...
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The role of the sewer system in estimating urban emissions of chemicals of emerging concern
The use of chemicals by society has resulted in calls for more effective control of their emissions. Many of these chemicals are poorly characterized...
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20-Month monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater of Curitiba, in Southern Brazil
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the collapse of healthcare systems and led to the development and application of several approaches of...
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Inferential challenges when assessing racial/ethnic health disparities in environmental research
Numerous epidemiologic studies have documented environmental health disparities according to race/ethnicity (R/E) to inform targeted interventions...