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

ABSTRACTWastewater-based epidemiology is a powerful tool for monitoring the emergence and spread of viral pathogens at the population scale. Typical polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods of quantitative and genomic monitoring of viruses in wastewater provide high sensitivity and specificity....

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Published in:	mBio
Main Authors:	Harry T. Child, George Airey, Daniel M. Maloney, Abby Parker, Jonathan Wild, Suzie McGinley, Nicholas Evens, Jonathan Porter, Kate Templeton, Steve Paterson, Ronny van Aerle, Matthew J. Wade, Aaron R. Jeffries, Irene Bassano
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Subjects:	wastewater sequencing metagenomics SARS-CoV-2 virus epidemiology
Online Access:	https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01468-23