D. Larsen

Wastewater Treatment Plants as Representative Sentinel Sites in Infectious Disease Surveillance

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a powerful population-level surveillance tool, but its coverage is structurally concentrated in in-network urban areas, potentially leaving rural populations underrepresented. Routine human movement between sewered (in-network) and unsewered (off-network) areas may, ho...