Minxi Jiang, etc.,al. [preprint]Developing and Benchmarking One Health Genomic Surveillance Tools for Influenza A Virus in Wastewater. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.19.676942
Influenza A viruses (IAV) remain a persistent One Health threat, and whole-genome sequencing from wastewater offers a promising surveillance tool. However, IAV is at low abundance in wastewater, making it difficult to sequence. We benchmarked four targeted enrichment methods suited for whole-genome sequencing including custom and off-the-shelf amplicon and probe-based methods. Our custom HA tiled-amplicon panel was sensitive, fast, and cost-effective, making it suitable for monitoring low-abundance seasonal variants of known subtypes. However, its reliance on conserved and intact primer-binding sites limited primer design to fewer subtypes. A previously published universal amplicon method targeted all IAV subtypes, but it performed poorly in wastewater due to its reliance on intact genome segments. Probe-capture methods were resilient to RNA degradation and mismatches, potentially enabling broader surveillance and detection of emerging strains. However, probes were costly, labor-intensive, and less sensitive than tiled-amplicon. When testing compatibility of sequencing methods with upstream virus concentration and extraction methods, ultrafiltration-based virus concentration outperformed large-volume direct extraction with all four sequencing methods. This set of benchmarking comparisons and custom panels provides needed information for the translation of IAV genomic sequencing into a routine component of wastewater surveillance.
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