Kehe Zhang

Oct 28, 2023 | nature.com | Michael J. Tisza |Matthew Ross |David M. Henke |Blake Hansen |Kehe Zhang |Cici Bauer | +1 more

AbstractWastewater is a discarded human by-product, but its analysis may help us understand the health of populations. Epidemiologists first analyzed wastewater to track outbreaks of poliovirus decades ago, but so-called wastewater-based epidemiology was reinvigorated to monitor SARS-CoV-2 levels while bypassing the difficulties and pit falls of individual testing. Current approaches overlook the activity of most human viruses and preclude a deeper understanding of human virome community dynamics.