What can wastewater reveal about diseases - and is it really the “Holy Grail” of epidemic surveillance? #WastewaterSurveillance can detect signals from viruses, bacteria & parasites circulating in a population - including cases that may never be reported. #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Epidemiology

Clinical PhD opportunity @lshtm.bsky.social through @hpruezi.bsky.social Applications now close on 17th April. Ideal for UK Infection registrars wanting to do a PhD in clinical application of metagenomics in returning travellers. Collaboration with @emcat1.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social

A Tale of Two Lenses: Emergency department indoor-air hybrid-capture metagenomics complements wastewater by adding a human-focused respiratory virus perspective https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.26348311v1

Worried your ssDNA virus genomes aren't getting enough love? Now they can, thanks to CRESSENT, a new software package from Ricardo Pavan, @sullivan-lab.bsky.social, and I! 🧬💻🧪 Out now: doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

🚨 New paper in Eurosurveillance - @karatasmustafa.bsky.social We used shotgun metagenomics on indoor air in a Belgian daycare to track respiratory, enteric & skin viruses. 👉 40/42 samples contained human viruses—even when kids seemed healthy! 📄 Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41000028/

New paper out! We sampled indoor air for a year in a Belgian daycare and used shotgun metagenomics to track viruses. We recovered many viral genomes of interest. What would you sample next? Read at @eurosurveillance.org @emmanuel-microb.bsky.social, @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social -->

An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks viruses in #wastewater identified the #measles virus in #Houston in early January 2025, before cases were reported. #TailorLabs #saracregeen @miketisza.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social #TEPHITexas #RiceU @apha.org www.bcm.edu/news/measles...

Another example of how wastewater sequencing is going to positively impact Public Health. TEPHI's Outbreak Detection program shows once more the sensitivity and specificity of agnostic sequencing .... ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

Check out our latest paper on how #wastewater can be used to track animal and #zoonotic #viruses in urban settings! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40318358/ Great work by @karatasmustafa.bsky.social in collaboration with @marcvanranst.bsky.social @wollants.bsky.social @stevenvangucht.bsky.social

🎉🎉 Happy to share our new paper! 🎉🎉 Have you ever wondered about the animal viruses living right alongside us in our cities? Between our pets at home, rats in the sewers, pigeons on the streets, insects everywhere, and even farm animals nearby, it’s no surprise +++

Clinical translation of microbiome research www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microbiome

To answer their study question on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on rotavirus infections in Belgium, @karatasmustafa.bsky.social et al. used data collected 10 years before, 2 years during, and 2 years after the pandemic #IDsky #EpiSky 🦠 👇🏽

📢 Excited to share the first paper of my PhD: 14 years of rotavirus epidemiology in Belgium! Read the full story on Eurosurveillance: @eurosurveillance.org 👉 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... #Rotavirus #Virology #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #EpiSky #IDsky Key messages -->

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 How did the #COVID_19 pandemic impact #rotavirus epidemiology in Belgium? Read all about it in our latest paper in @Eurosurveillanc: eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... @karatasmustafa.bsky.social @vanranstmarc.bsky.social @wollants.bsky.social

New study: analysing indoor air to detect outbreaks. “… Air sampling could provide sensitive, responsive #epidemiology indicators for surveillance of respiratory pathogens…” See thread for details and previous air sampling work with @emmanuel-microb.bsky.social… #IDEpi #IDsky #PedsID #KULeuven 🛟

New #kuleuven study: indoor air sampling to monitor respiratory infections in childcare settings. 🧒🏽🏫 Key findings: 🔬 Sensitive pathogen detection 🌬️ Correlation with CO2 & infection rates 📈 Early outbreak warnings 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #RespiratoryInfections

2️⃣ Metagenomics can find unexpected viruses in air. Also viruses associated with skin infections or gastroenteritis. More in this preprint with the Rega Institute’s Viral Metagenomics Lab: @karatasmustafa.bsky.social , @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share my first post here! Feel free to look at our preprint, which is currently under review (with constructive and encouraging comments from reviewers!). We performed viral metagenomics to track viruses in the indoor air of a daycare center: Our findings... (see the next post!)-->