ArticleViruses2024
A Metagenomic Investigation of Potential Health Risks and Element Cycling Functions of Bacteria and Viruses in Wastewater Treatment Plants.
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- A mathematical framework to correct for compositionality in microbiome data sets.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Metagenomic profiling of pathogens and antibiotic resistome in influent of six municipal wastewater treatment plants: a descriptive analysis of plant-specific microbial hazards.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- The effect of taxonomic, host-dependent features and sample bias on virus host prediction using machine learning and short sequence k-mers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Wastewater Metavirome Diversity: Exploring Replicate Inconsistencies and Bioinformatic Tool Disparities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Effect of rainfall on metagenomics in a sewage environment in Hongta District, Yuxi city, Yunnan Province.PeerJ · 2025Article
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Abstract
The concentration of viruses in sewage sludge is significantly higher (10-1000-fold) than that found in natural environments, posing a potential risk for human and animal health. However, the composition of these viruses and their role in the transfer of pathogenic factors, as well as their role in the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles remain poorly understood. In this study, we employed a shotgun metagenomic approach to investigate the pathogenic bacteria and viral composition and function in two wastewater treatment plants located on a campus. Our analysis revealed the presence of 1334 amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) across six sludge samples, with 242 ASVs (41.22% of total reads) identified as pathogenic bacteria.
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