Establishing farm dust as a useful viral metagenomic surveillance matrix.

ABSTRACT: Farm animals may harbor viral pathogens, some with zoonotic potential which can possibly cause severe clinical outcomes in animals and humans. Documenting the viral content of dust may provide information on the potential sources and movement of viruses. Here, we describe a dust sequencing strategy that provides detailed viral sequence characterization from farm dust samples and use this method to document the virus communities from chicken farm dust samples and paired feces collected from the same broiler farms in the Netherlands. From the sequencing data, Parvoviridae and Picornaviridae were the most frequently found virus families, detected in 85-100% of all fecal and dust samples with a large genomic diversity identified from the Picornaviridae. Sequences from the Caliciviridae and Ast

SUBMITTER: Kwok KTT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9521564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature