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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 14/04/2026

What can wastewater reveal about diseases - and is it really the “Holy Grail” of epidemic surveillance? #WastewaterSurveillance can detect signals from viruses, bacteria & parasites circulating in a population - including cases that may never be reported. #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Epidemiology

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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A Tale of Two Lenses: Emergency department indoor-air hybrid-capture metagenomics complements wastewater by adding a human-focused respiratory virus perspective www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Mike Tisza @miketisza.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Worried your ssDNA virus genomes aren't getting enough love? Now they can, thanks to CRESSENT, a new software package from Ricardo Pavan, @sullivan-lab.bsky.social, and I! 🧬💻🧪 Out now: doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

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Jelle Matthijnssens @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚨 New paper in Eurosurveillance - @karatasmustafa.bsky.social We used shotgun metagenomics on indoor air in a Belgian daycare to track respiratory, enteric & skin viruses. 👉 40/42 samples contained human viruses—even when kids seemed healthy! 📄 Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41000028/

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Mustafa Karatas @karatasmustafa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

New paper out! We sampled indoor air for a year in a Belgian daycare and used shotgun metagenomics to track viruses. We recovered many viral genomes of interest. What would you sample next? Read at @eurosurveillance.org @emmanuel-microb.bsky.social, @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social -->

Figure 3. (A–N) Sequencing coverage plots of genetic sequences of viruses detected in indoor air samples of a daycare and phylogenetic analyses of sequences of (O) two human bocaviruses and (P) one RSV identified in some samples, Belgium, January–December 2022

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From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks viruses in #wastewater identified the #measles virus in #Houston in early January 2025, before cases were reported. #TailorLabs #saracregeen @miketisza.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social #TEPHITexas #RiceU @apha.org www.bcm.edu/news/measles...

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Anthony William Maresso Ph.D. @tailor-labs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Another example of how wastewater sequencing is going to positively impact Public Health. TEPHI's Outbreak Detection program shows once more the sensitivity and specificity of agnostic sequencing .... ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

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Jelle Matthijnssens @jellematthijnssens.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Check out our latest paper on how #wastewater can be used to track animal and #zoonotic #viruses in urban settings! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40318358/ Great work by @karatasmustafa.bsky.social in collaboration with @marcvanranst.bsky.social @wollants.bsky.social @stevenvangucht.bsky.social

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Mustafa Karatas @karatasmustafa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🎉🎉 Happy to share our new paper! 🎉🎉 Have you ever wondered about the animal viruses living right alongside us in our cities? Between our pets at home, rats in the sewers, pigeons on the streets, insects everywhere, and even farm animals nearby, it’s no surprise +++

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Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · 27/03/2025

To answer their study question on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on rotavirus infections in Belgium, @karatasmustafa.bsky.social et al. used data collected 10 years before, 2 years during, and 2 years after the pandemic #IDsky #EpiSky 🦠 👇🏽

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Mustafa Karatas @karatasmustafa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📢 Excited to share the first paper of my PhD: 14 years of rotavirus epidemiology in Belgium! Read the full story on Eurosurveillance: @eurosurveillance.org 👉 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... #Rotavirus #Virology #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #EpiSky #IDsky Key messages -->

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Caspar Geenen @caspargeenen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New study: analysing indoor air to detect outbreaks. “… Air sampling could provide sensitive, responsive #epidemiology indicators for surveillance of respiratory pathogens…” See thread for details and previous air sampling work with @emmanuel-microb.bsky.social… #IDEpi #IDsky #PedsID #KULeuven 🛟

Heatmap chart showing the detection of various pathogens over different sampling weeks (W9 to W30). Pathogens are listed on the y-axis, including viruses and bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, human coronaviruses, influenza viruses, and others. The x-axis represents the sampling weeks. Black dots indicate detection of the pathogen in the air. The colour gradient, ranging from white to dark red, represents the proportion of positive paper tissue samples, with darker shades indicating higher proportions. This alt text was generated by ChatGPT.

A chart showing the relative detection of pathogens in air versus paper tissues, with pathogens listed on the y-axis (e.g., Pneumocystis jirovecii, herpes simplex virus type 1, SARS-CoV-2). The x-axis represents ∆Ct values, where negative values indicate higher detection in air and positive values indicate higher detection in paper tissues. Red dots represent the mean ∆Ct for each pathogen, and horizontal red error bars represent the 95% confidence intervals. Individual grey dots indicate data points for each sample. Pathogens are arranged by their relative prevalence in air and paper tissues. This alt text was generated by ChatGPT.

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Mustafa Karatas @karatasmustafa.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy to share my first post here! Feel free to look at our preprint, which is currently under review (with constructive and encouraging comments from reviewers!). We performed viral metagenomics to track viruses in the indoor air of a daycare center: Our findings... (see the next post!)-->

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