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American Society for Microbiology, mSystems, 3(5), 2020

DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00876-19

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Initial Mapping of the New York City Wastewater Virome

Journal article published in 2020 by K. Gulino, J. Rahman ORCID, M. Badri, J. Morton, R. Bonneau, E. Ghedin ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Wastewater is a rich source of microbial life and contains bacteria, viruses, and other microbes found in human waste as well as environmental runoff sources. As part of an effort to characterize the New York City wastewater metagenome, we profiled the viral community of sewage samples across all five boroughs of NYC and found that local sampling sites have unique sets of viruses. We focused on bacteriophages, or viruses of bacteria, to understand how they may influence the microbial ecology of this system. We identified several new clusters of phages and successfully associated them with bacterial hosts, providing insight into virus-host interactions in urban wastewater. This study provides a first look into the viral communities present across the wastewater system in NYC and points to their functional importance in this environment.