Authors: Taru Miller, Tarja Pitkänen, Outi Nyholm, Kristiina Valkama, Marc Christian Tahita, Vito Baraka, Vivi Maketa, Eric Lyimo, Hillary Sebukoto, Palpouguini Lompo, Melissa Kabena, Adriana Krolicka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48060/tghn.155
In the ODIN project, setting-up environmental surveillance system for multiple human pathogens is on-going in three sub-Saharan countries: Tanzania, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The goal is to develop a harmonized wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) system to serve these regions, with the potential for expansion across other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ODIN project has published a deliverable 2.2 that summarizes the planning and developing the environmental surveillance strategy, including the piloting phase of the wastewater and environmental surveillance for the selected priority pathogens. The deliverable was produced in the ODIN consortium Work Package 2 under the task 2.2 “Developing a proposal for a cost-efficient environmental surveillance strategy” which is done in close cooperation with the task 2.1 “Gathering information on the existing clinical and environmental surveillance systems”, task 2.3 “Preparing guidance and a handbook for microbiological investigations”, and task 2.4 “Collecting the environmental surveillance data”. The report also provides information on how the performance of laboratory methods were checked and metagenome sequence library production tested with environmental samples during the pilot sampling in Tanzania, Burkina Faso and the DRC.