Back

Wastewater-informed agent-based modelling of hepatitis E transmission dynamics

2026-02-17 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
View on medRxiv
Show abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is considered a predominantly foodborne pathogen in developed settings. During COVID-19 lockdown periods, however, HEV concentrations in wastewater at a treatment plant in Munich, Germany decreased, suggesting that pandemic-related behaviour changes inadvertently influenced transmission. In contrast, reported cases and wastewater data from a smaller catchment showed no comparable decline. To assess whether the observed reduction is compatible with a near-exclusively foodb...

Predicted journal destinations

1
Science of The Total Environment
80 training papers
Top 0.6% 17.1%
2
Nature Communications
483 training papers
Top 7% 11.4%
3
Scientific Reports
701 training papers
Top 29% 7.5%
4
Epidemics
96 training papers
Top 2% 5.7%
5
PLOS ONE
1737 training papers
Top 85% 4.0%
6
Water Research
26 training papers
Top 0.5% 3.7%
7
PLOS Computational Biology
141 training papers
Top 5% 3.7%
8
Emerging Infectious Diseases
84 training papers
Top 4% 2.7%
9
BMC Infectious Diseases
110 training papers
Top 7% 1.9%
10
Clinical Infectious Diseases
219 training papers
Top 15% 1.9%
11
BMC Medicine
155 training papers
Top 13% 1.9%
12
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
166 training papers
Top 10% 1.9%
13
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
115 training papers
Top 18% 1.1%
14
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
100 training papers
Top 13% 1.1%
15
eLife
262 training papers
Top 45% 1.0%
16
Nature Medicine
88 training papers
Top 13% 0.9%
17
Eurosurveillance
77 training papers
Top 11% 0.9%
18
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
137 training papers
Top 15% 0.9%
19
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
77 training papers
Top 6% 0.9%
20
PLOS Global Public Health
287 training papers
Top 35% 0.7%
21
Journal of The Royal Society Interface
54 training papers
Top 6% 0.7%
22
JAMA Network Open
125 training papers
Top 32% 0.7%
23
Viruses
79 training papers
Top 11% 0.7%
24
mSystems
16 training papers
Top 1% 0.7%
25
Journal of Clinical Virology
54 training papers
Top 8% 0.7%
26
Journal of Infection
64 training papers
Top 11% 0.7%
27
The Lancet Microbe
33 training papers
Top 3% 0.7%
28
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
57 training papers
Top 9% 0.7%
29
Communications Medicine
63 training papers
Top 8% 0.7%
30
Science
46 training papers
Top 8% 0.7%