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Volume 30, Number 8—August 2024
Online Report
Wastewater Target Pathogens of Public Health Importance for Expanded Sampling, Houston, Texas, USA
, Kaavya Domakonda, Lauren Stadler, Katherine B. Ensor, Catherine D. Johnson, Janeana White, David Persse, and Edward Septimus
Table
Wastewater targets as suggested by infectious disease subject matter experts who participated in a study of wastewater target pathogens of public health importance for expanded sampling, Houston, Texas, USA, February 28, 2023–August 31, 2023
| Target | N* | Overall total score (ranking)† | Overall average score (ranking)‡ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Influenza A, novel/variant | 43 | 226 (1) | 5.26 (2) |
| Measles (rubeola) | 41 | 216 (2) | 5.34 (1) |
| Hepatitis A | 43 | 202 (3) | 4.76 (5) |
| Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales | 43 | 200 (4) | 4.65 (6) |
| Monkeypox virus | 41 | 194 (5) | 4.79 (4) |
| Neisseria meningitidis, invasive (meningococcal disease) | 38 | 188 (6) | 4.95 (3) |
| Candida auris | 42 | 185 (7) | 4.40 (12) |
| West Nile virus | 41 | 180 (8) | 4.39 (13) |
| Rabies, human | 39 | 180 (8) | 4.62 (7) |
| Anthrax | 39 | 179 (10) | 4.59 (8) |
| Legionellosis | 41 | 179 (10) | 4.7 (15) |
| Pertussis | 39 | 175 (14) | 4.55 (9) |
| Cholera | 39 | 173 (17) | 4.50 (10) |
*The number of infectious disease subject matter experts recruited using nonprobability methods, who provided a response in either of the Public Health Importance or Actionable for Public Health Intervention categories for this target. †Overall total score is the summed totals of the Public Health Importance and Actionable for Public Health Intervention categories, with the target’s ranking corresponding to this sum. ‡Overall average score is the summed totals of the averages (total score divided by the number of respondents for each target) for the Public Health Importance and Actionable for Public Health Intervention categories, with the target’s ranking corresponding to this sum.