Wastewater-Based Surveillance of Microbial Pathogens in GCC Countries (2015–2025)

A scoping review and stakeholder survey analyzing 26 peer-reviewed studies on wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) in the Gulf Cooperation Council region from 2015 to 2025. The document, authored by Bushra Alghamdi and published under CC-BY-4.0 in April 2026, critically assesses the scope, methodology, and focus of WBS efforts for pathogens like antimicrobial resistance and SARS-CoV-2. It provides perspective on strengthening WBS for early detection and public health decision-making in the GCC.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking the current state of wastewater surveillance research in the GCC based on the reviewed 26 studies.
• Identifying methodological gaps and standardization needs for quantitative WBS measurements as discussed in the review.
• Informing the development of consortium-based surveillance systems based on stakeholder survey insights.
• Planning capacity training and funding mechanisms for WBS programs using the review's conclusions.

Strengths

• Explicitly covers a defined 10-year time range from 2015 to 2025.
• Systematically reviews 26 identified studies following PRISMA scoping review guidance.
• Includes perspectives from GCC stakeholders via a conducted survey.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 32.1 KB PDF document, which is a very small textual summary rather than a primary data collection.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the content is a review article.
• The data may reflect publication bias inherent to the scoping review's literature search methodology.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Structured literature search on Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar, combined with a stakeholder questionnaire survey.

Time Range

2015–2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 05:47:55.

Geography

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries