VTEI / wastewater-based epidemiology

wastewater-based epidemiology

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in surface and wastewater

RNDr. Hana Mlejnková, Ph.D., Ing. Věra Očenášková, Mgr. Kateřina Sovová, Ph.D., Mgr. Petra Vašíčková, Ph.D., Ing. Eva Juranová – 3/2020

The paper provides actual clear information about viruses and coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the possibility of contamination of surface water and wastewater by this virus.

Municipal wastewater as a diagnostic medium of the City of Prague

Ing. Věra Očenášková, Ing. Petr Tušil, Ph.D., MBA, RNDr. Diana Marešová, Ph.D., Ing. Danica Pospíchalová, Ing. Nikola Cielecká – 2/2020

The article informs about regular, almost two-year long monitoring of municipal wastewater at selected sampling points of the Prague sewerage network. Selected illicit drugs (e.g. methamphetamine, MDMA, THC, cocaine), nicotine and its metabolites and the ethanol metabolite ethyl sulphate are monitored in municipal wastewater.

Municipal wastewater as a diagnostic medium

Ing. Věra Očenášková – 1/2018

The paper outlines the possibilities of using the epidemiological approach to the analysis of municipal wastewater to monitor the lifestyle of the population, its dietary habits, the environmental impacts on humans, the assessment of the state of health of the population and monitoring the consumption of illicit drugs and other substances in the monitored population