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Respirology
October 2024
Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
Sci Rep
August 2020
Viroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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.
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