RNA-Seq of untreated wastewater to assess COVID-19 and emerging and endemic viruses for public health surveillanceResearch in context

Summary: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic showcased the power of genomic sequencing to tackle the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. However, metagenomic sequencing of total microbial RNAs in wastewater has the potential to assess multiple infectious diseases simultaneously and has yet t...

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Main Authors: Stephen R. Stockdale, Adam A. Blanchard, Amit Nayak, Aliabbas Husain, Rupam Nashine, Hemanshi Dudani, C. Patrick McClure, Alexander W. Tarr, Aditi Nag, Ekta Meena, Vikky Sinha, Sandeep K. Shrivastava, Colin Hill, Andrew C. Singer, Rachel L. Gomes, Edward Acheampong, Saravana B. Chidambaram, Tarun Bhatnagar, Umashankar Vetrivel, Sudipti Arora, Rajpal Singh Kashyap, Tanya M. Monaghan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-07-01
Series:The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772368223000653