Setting a baseline for global urban virome surveillance in sewage

David F. Nieuwenhuijse, Bas B. Oude Munnink, My V.T. Phan, Rene S. Hendriksen, Artan Bego, Catherine Rees, Elizabeth Heather Neilson, Kris Coventry, Peter Collignon, Franz Allerberger, Teddie O. Rahube, Guilherme Oliveira, Ivan Ivanov, Thet Sopheak, Yith Vuthy, Christopher K. Yost, Djim adjim Tabo, Sara Cuadros-Orellana, Changwen Ke, Huanying ZhengLi Baisheng, Xiaoyang Jiao, Pilar Donado-Godoy, Kalpy Julien Coulibaly, Jasna Hrenovic, Matijana Jergović, Renáta Karpíšková, Bodil Elsborg, Mengistu Legesse, Tadesse Eguale, Annamari Heikinheimo, Jose Eduardo Villacis, Bakary Sanneh, Lile Malania, Andreas Nitsche, Annika Brinkmann, Courage Kosi Setsoafia Saba, Bela Kocsis, Norbert Solymosi, Thorunn R. Thorsteinsdottir, Abdulla Mohamed Hatha, Masoud Alebouyeh, Dearbhaile Morris, Louise O’Connor, Martin Cormican, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Antonio Battisti, Patricia Alba, Zeinegul Shakenova, Ciira Kiiyukia, Eric Ng’eno, Lul Raka, Aivars Bērziņš, Jeļena Avsejenko, Vadims Bartkevics, Christian Penny, Heraa Rajandas, Sivachandran Parimannan, Malcolm Vella Haber, Pushkar Pal, Heike Schmitt, Mark van Passel, Milou G.M. van de Schans, Tina Zuidema, Gert Jan Jeunen, Neil Gemmell, Kayode Fashae, Astrid Louise Wester, Rune Holmstad, Rumina Hasan, Sadia Shakoor, Maria Luz Zamudio Rojas, Dariusz Wasyl, Golubinka Bosevska, Mihail Kochubovski, Cojocaru Radu, Amy Gassama†, Vladimir Radosavljevic, Moon Y.F. Tay, Rogelio Zuniga-Montanez, Stefan Wuertz, Dagmar Gavačová, Marija Trkov, Karen Keddy, Kerneels Esterhuyse, Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar, Sujatha Pathirage, D. G.Joakim Larsson, Leif Norrgren, Stefan Örn, Tanja Van der Heijden, Happiness Houka Kumburu, Ana Maria de RodaHusman, Berthe Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Pawou Bidjada, Somtinda Christelle Nikiema-Pessinaba, Belkis Levent, John Scott Meschke, Nicola Koren Beck, Chinh Van Dang, Doan Minh Nguyen Tran, Nguyen Do Phuc, Geoffrey Kwenda, Patrick Munk, Shweta Venkatakrishnan, Frank M. Aarestrup, Matthew Cotten, Marion P.G. Koopmans

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Abstract

The rapid development of megacities, and their growing connectedness across the world is becoming a distinct driver for emerging disease outbreaks. Early detection of unusual disease emergence and spread should therefore include such cities as part of risk-based surveillance. A catch-all metagenomic sequencing approach of urban sewage could potentially provide an unbiased insight into the dynamics of viral pathogens circulating in a community irrespective of access to care, a potential which already has been proven for the surveillance of poliovirus. Here, we present a detailed characterization of sewage viromes from a snapshot of 81 high density urban areas across the globe, including in-depth assessment of potential biases, as a proof of concept for catch-all viral pathogen surveillance. We show the ability to detect a wide range of viruses and geographical and seasonal differences for specific viral groups. Our findings offer a cross-sectional baseline for further research in viral surveillance from urban sewage samples and place previous studies in a global perspective.
Original languageEnglish
Article number13748
Pages (from-to)1-13
JournalScientific Reports
Volume10
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2020

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