Bacterial metatranscriptomes in wastewater can differentiate virally infected human populations
R. A. Salido, C. Martino, S. Karthikeyan, S. Huang, G. Rahman, A. Gonzalez, L. S. Zaramela, K. L. Beck, S. Bhute, K. Cantrell, A. P. Carrieri, S. Farmer, N. Haiminen, G. Humphrey, H.-C. Kim, , R. Knight
The paper shows that bacterial metatranscriptomes in wastewater can distinguish SARS-CoV-2 infected from uninfected human populations without directly detecting viral transcripts.
bioRxiv · Feb 23, 2022 · PreprintMicrobiology