On-board toilets of long-haul flights: is sewage epidemiology effective for COVID-19 global surveillance?

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2021 Mar-Apr:40:102006. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102006. Epub 2021 Feb 26.

Authors

Irene Amoruso¹, Tatjana Baldovin²

Affiliations

¹ Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Unit of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Electronic address: irene.amoruso@unipd.it.
² Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, Unit of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. Electronic address: tatjana.baldovin@unipd.it.

No abstract available

Keywords: Aircraft toilet waste; COVID-19; Environmental surveillance; Global surveillance; SARS-CoV-2.

Publication types

Editorial
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MeSH terms

Bathroom Equipment*
COVID-19*
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Sewage

Substances

Sewage