Metagenomics and the development of viral water quality tools

K Bibby, K Crank, J Greaves, X Li, Z Wu, IA Hamza… - NPJ Clean …, 2019 - nature.com
Human exposure to pathogenic viruses in environmental waters results in a significant
global disease burden. Current microbial water quality monitoring approaches, mainly …

Comparison of metagenomic and targeted methods for sequencing human pathogenic viruses from wastewater

HT Child, G Airey, DM Maloney, A Parker, J Wild… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a powerful tool for monitoring the emergence and
spread of viral pathogens at the population scale. Typical polymerase chain reaction (PCR) …

Effect of wastewater collection and concentration methods on assessment of viral diversity

Y Li, B Miyani, KL Childs, SH Shiu… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring of potentially pathogenic human viruses in wastewater is of crucial importance to
understand disease trends in communities, predict potential outbreaks, and boost …

Seasonality of respiratory, enteric, and urinary viruses revealed by wastewater genomic surveillance

MF Smith, R Maqsood, RA Sullins, EM Driver… - Msphere, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater surveillance can reveal population-level infectious disease burden and
emergent public health threats can be reliably assessed through wastewater surveillance …

Viral indicators for tracking domestic wastewater contamination in the aquatic environment

DI Walker, EM Adriaenssens, JE McDonald, LS Hillary… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Waterborne enteric viruses are an emerging cause of disease outbreaks and represent a
major threat to global public health. Enteric viruses may originate from human wastewater …

Raw sewage harbors diverse viral populations

PG Cantalupo, B Calgua, G Zhao, A Hundesa, AD Wier… - MBio, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT At this time, about 3,000 different viruses are recognized, but metagenomic
studies suggest that these viruses are a small fraction of the viruses that exist in nature. We …

A snapshot of the global drinking water virome: Diversity and metabolic potential vary with residual disinfectant use

B Hegarty, Z Dai, L Raskin, A Pinto, K Wigginton… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Viruses are important drivers of microbial community ecology and evolution, influencing
microbial mortality, metabolism, and horizontal gene transfer. However, the effects of viruses …

Targeted metagenomic sequencing for detection of vertebrate viruses in wastewater for public health surveillance

C McCall, RA Leo Elworth, KM Wylie, TN Wylie… - ACS ES&T …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Viruses of concern for quantitative wastewater monitoring are usually selected as a result of
an outbreak and subsequent detection in wastewater. In addition, targeted metagenomics …

Evaluation of methods for the concentration and extraction of viruses from sewage in the context of metagenomic sequencing

MH Hjelmsø, M Hellmér, X Fernandez-Cassi… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Viral sewage metagenomics is a novel field of study used for surveillance, epidemiological
studies, and evaluation of waste water treatment efficiency. In raw sewage human waste is …

Metagenomic analysis of viruses in reclaimed water

K Rosario, C Nilsson, YW Lim, Y Ruan… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Reclaimed water use is an important component of sustainable water resource
management. However, there are concerns regarding pathogen transport through this …