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Licit and illicit drugs in waste- and environmental waters: epidemiological and environmental implications

Author(s): Taja Verovšek (Author), Ester Heath (Supervisor)

Year: 2023

Type: Doctoral dissertation

The analysis of drug residues in waste and environmental waters offers valuable insights into the epidemiological and environmental implications of drug use. This study employs a wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach to estimate the use of licit and illicit drugs and new psychoactive substances (NPS) among both general and specific populations. …

Development and employment of untargeted and targeted tools for virus detection in the frame of water-based epidemiology

Author(s): Olivera Maksimović (Author), Jon Gutiérrez-Aguirre (Supervisor), Denis Kutnjak (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2023

Type: Doctoral dissertation

Traditional methods of studying viruses are limited in their ability to detect novel pathogens, but recent advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) are changing that. HTS allows researchers to probe deeply into the virome of various hosts and environments, identifying known and unknown viral species. However, a targeted approach, like quantitative …