Metagenomic sequencing detects human respiratory and enteric viruses in air samples collected from congregate settings.

ABSTRACT: Innovative methods for evaluating virus risk and spread, independent of test-seeking behavior, are needed to improve routine public health surveillance, outbreak response, and pandemic preparedness. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental surveillance strategies, including wastewater and air sampling, have been used alongside widespread individual-based SARS-CoV-2 testing programs to provide population-level data. These environmental surveillance strategies have predominantly relied on pathogen-specific detection methods to monitor viruses through space and time. However, this provides a limited picture of the virome present in an environmental sample, leaving us blind to most circulating viruses. In this study, we explore whether pathogen-agnostic deep sequencing can expand the ut

SUBMITTER: Minor NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10312882 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature