Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-31-2022

Department

Medicine

Abstract

We describe the successful detection of human, porcine and canine picornaviruses (CanPV) in sewage sludge (at each stage of treatment) from Louisville, Kentucky, USA, using Pan-enterovirus amplicon-based long-read Illumina sequencing. Based on publicly available sequence data in GenBank, this is the first detection of CanPV in the USA and the first detection globally using wastewater-based epidemiology. Our findings also suggest there might be clusters of endemic porcine enterovirus (which have been shown capable of causing systemic infection in porcine) circulation in the USA that have not been sampled for around two decades. Our findings highlight the value of WBE coupled with amplicon based long-read Illumina sequencing for virus surveillance and demonstrates this approach can provide an avenue that supports a “One Health” model to virus surveillance. Finally, we describe a new CanPV assay targeting the capsid protein gene region that can be used globally, especially in resource limited settings for its detection and molecular epidemiology.

Comments

This is the accepted manuscript version of the article that was published in Emerging Microbes & Infections, volume 11, issue 1 in 2022.

Original Publication Information

Temitope O.C. Faleye, Erin M. Driver, Devin A. Bowes, Rochelle H. Holm, Daymond Talley, Ray Yeager, Aruni Bhatnagar, Ted Smith, Arvind Varsani, Rolf U Halden & Matthew Scotch (2022): Detection of Human, Porcine and Canine Picornaviruses in Municipal Sewage Sludge Using Pan-Enterovirus Amplicon-based Long-read Illumina Sequencing, Emerging Microbes & Infections, DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2022.2071173

DOI

10.1080/22221751.2022.2071173

ORCID

0000-0001-8849-1390

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