Environmental Virology Laboratory, Department of Water Pollution Research, Institute of Environmental Research and Climate Changes, The National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt E-mail:
Research Group Immune- and Bio-markers for Infection, The Centre of Excellent for Advanced Science, The National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt; Department of Therapeutic Chemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Research, The National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
J Water Health. 2022 Nov;20(11):1668-1672. doi: 10.2166/wh.2022.223.
People's hygienic habits greatly affect the spreading rate of enteric viruses. After the COVID-19 pandemic, many people followed announced precautions and improved their hygienic status to protect themselves from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here, we studied if this indirectly affected the prevalence of enteric viruses in Egypt. A total of 21 samples (one sample per week) were collected from the Zenin wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) through the period between August 2021 and March 2022. Detection of adenovirus, hepatitis A virus (HAV), and rotavirus showed their presence in 66, 14.3, and 9.5% of the collected samples, respectively. Comparing those percentages to previously published data concerned with the detection of the same viruses from the same WWTP or others revealed a remarkable decrease in the prevalence of the three viruses after the COVID-19 pandemic. This allows the conclusion that safety precautions against SARS-CoV-2 lead indirectly to a reduction of adenovirus, HAV, and rotavirus prevalence rates.
人们的卫生习惯极大地影响肠道病毒的传播速度。在 COVID-19 大流行之后，许多人为了防止 SARS-CoV-2 感染，遵循公布的预防措施并改善了自己的卫生状况。在这里，我们研究了这是否间接影响了埃及肠道病毒的流行率。我们在 2021 年 8 月至 2022 年 3 月期间通过 Zenin 污水处理厂（WWTP）每周收集一份样本，总共收集了 21 份样本。检测结果显示，腺病毒、甲型肝炎病毒（HAV）和轮状病毒在采集的样本中分别存在于 66%、14.3%和 9.5%的样本中。将这些百分比与之前发表的数据进行比较，这些数据涉及来自同一 WWTP 或其他 WWTP 的相同病毒的检测，结果表明，在 COVID-19 大流行之后，这三种病毒的流行率显著下降。这可以得出结论，针对 SARS-CoV-2 的安全预防措施间接导致腺病毒、HAV 和轮状病毒的流行率降低。
