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ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Leveraging artificial intelligence community analytics and nanopore metagenomic surveillance to monitor early enteropathogen outbreaks.

Jeff Gauthier, Sima Mohammadi, Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj, Brian Boyle, Chrystal Landgraff, Lawrence Goodridge, Kenton White, Benjamin Chapman, Roger C Levesque

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jeff GauthierDépartement de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Sima MohammadiDépartement de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Irena Kukavica-IbruljDépartement de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Brian BoyleDépartement de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
Chrystal LandgraffNational Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Lawrence GoodridgeFood Science Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Kenton WhiteAdvanced Symbolics Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Benjamin ChapmanAdvanced Symbolics Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Roger C LevesqueDépartement de Microbiologie-Infectiologie et d'Immunologie, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.

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Abstract

Foodborne enteric infections are a major public health and economical burden, yet their surveillance often relies on latent indicators that delay containment efforts by several days and weeks. Conversely, whole metagenome shotgun sequencing of communal wastewater allows continuous monitoring of enteric pathogens. Spikes in abundance can be observed several weeks before the first case reports emerge. In addition, AI-driven social media mining, already in use for public opinion analytics, could be repurposed for predicting outbreaks at the community level by predicting the number of people experiencing symptoms in the population given their social media activity. Here we report how AI-driven community analytics and high-throughput long-read metagenomic surveillance of communal wastewater microbiota were combined to monitor non-typhoidal salmonellosis in Quebec City, Canada, from August 2023 to February 2024. Both approaches indicated similar fluctuations over time for: (i) people experiencing salmonellosis symptoms, and (ii)

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Artificial IntelligenceDisease OutbreaksFoodborne DiseasesMetagenomicsNanoporesSalmonella InfectionsHumansQuebecWastewaterWastewaterartificial intelligencemetagenomicsOxford nanopore sequencingpathogen surveillanceSalmonella

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