Research Group for Genomic Epidemiology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark
Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas N. Petersen, Rene S. Hendriksen, Anne Mette Seyfarth, Jette S. Kjeldgaard, Christina Aaby Svendsen & Frank M. Aarestrup
Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Bram van Bunnik & Mark Woolhouse
Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fanny Berglund & D. G. Joakim Larsson
Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Marion Koopmans
Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania
Artan Bego
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pablo Power
Melbourne Water Corporation, Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Rees & Kris Coventry
Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Dionisia Lambrinidis
University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Elizabeth Heather Jakobsen Neilson & Yaovi Mahuton Gildas Hounmanou
Charles Darwin University, Darwin Northern Territory, Australia
Karen Gibb
Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
Peter Collignon
ALS Water, Scoresby, Australia
Susan Cassar
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria
Franz Allerberger
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Anowara Begum & Zenat Zebin Hossain
Environmental Protection Department, Bridgetown, St. Michael, Barbados
Carlon Worrell
Laboratoire Hospitalier Universitaire de Bruxelles (LHUB-ULB), Brussels, Belgium
Olivier Vandenberg
AQUAFIN NV, Aartselaar, Belgium
Ilse Pieters
Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Dougnon Tamègnon Victorien
Universidad Catσlica Boliviana San Pablo, La Paz, Bolivia
Angela Daniela Salazar Gutierrez & Freddy Soria
Public Health Institute of the Republic of Srpska, Faculty of Medicine University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vesna Rudić Grujić
Public Health Institute of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nataša Mazalica
Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana
Teddie O. Rahube
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Carlos Alberto Tagliati & Larissa Camila Ribeiro de Souza
Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dalia Rodrigues
Vale Institute of Technology, Belιm, PA, Brazil
Guilherme Oliveira
National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ivan Ivanov
University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Bonkoungou Isidore Juste & Traoré Oumar
Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Thet Sopheak & Yith Vuthy
Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundι, Cameroon
Antoinette Ngandijo, Ariane Nzouankeu & Ziem A. Abah Jacques Olivier
University of Regina, Regina, Canada
Christopher K. Yost
Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre (INRS-ETE), Quebec City G1K 9A9, Canada and Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India
Pratik Kumar
Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre (INRS-ETE), Quebec City G1K 9A9, Canada and Lassonde School of Enginerring, York University, Toronto, Canada
Satinder Kaur Brar
University of N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad
Djim-Adjim Tabo
Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
Aiko D. Adell
Institute of Public Health, Santiago, Chile
Esteban Paredes-Osses & Maria Cristina Martinez
Centro de Biotecnologνa de los Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales, Talca, Chile
Sara Cuadros-Orellana
Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China
Changwen Ke, Huanying Zheng & Li Baisheng
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Lok Ting Lau & Teresa Chung
Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China
Xiaoyang Jiao
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Yongjie Yu
Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Henan province, Zhengzhou, China
Zhao JiaYong
Colombian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance – Coipars, CI Tibaitatα, Corporaciσn Colombiana de Investigaciσn Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA), Tibaitatα – Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Johan F. Bernal Morales, Maria Fernanda Valencia & Pilar Donado-Godoy
Institut Pasteur de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Kalpy Julien Coulibaly
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Jasna Hrenovic
Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Matijana Jergović
Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
Renáta Karpíšková
Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro (CRSN-LWIRO), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Zozo Nyarukweba Deogratias
BIOFOS A/S, Copenhagen K, Denmark
Bodil Elsborg
Technical University of Denmark, Kgs., Lyngby, Denmark
Lisbeth Truelstrup Hansen & Pernille Erland Jensen
Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
Mohamed Abouelnaga
University of Sadat City, Sadat City, Egypt
Mohamed Fathy Salem
Ministry of Health, Environmental Microbiology, Tallinn, Estonia
Marliin Koolmeister
Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mengistu Legesse & Tadesse Eguale
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Annamari Heikinheimo
French Institute Search Pour L’exploitation De La Mer (Ifremer), Nantes, France
Soizick Le Guyader & Julien Schaeffer
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciσn en Salud Pϊblica-INSPI (CRNRAM), Galαpagos, Quito, Ecuador
Jose Eduardo Villacis
National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kotu, Gambia
Bakary Sanneh
National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia
Lile Malania
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Nitsche & Annika Brinkmann
Technische Universitδt Dresden, Institute of Hydrobiology, Dresden, Germany
Sara Schubert, Sina Hesse & Thomas U. Berendonk
University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
Courage Kosi Setsoafia Saba
University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Jibril Mohammed
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, PMB, Ghana
Patrick Kwame Feglo
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana
Regina Ama Banu
Veterinary Research Institute of Thessaloniki, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation-DEMETER, Thermi, Greece
Charalampos Kotzamanidis
Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP S.A.), Athens, Greece
Efthymios Lytras
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Sergio A. Lickes
Semmelweis University, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Budapest, Hungary
Bela Kocsis
University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Norbert Solymosi
University of Iceland, Reykjavνk, Iceland
Thorunn R. Thorsteinsdottir
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India
Abdulla Mohamed Hatha
Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India
Mamatha Ballal
Apollo Diagnostics, Mangalore, India
Sohan Rodney Bangera
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Fereshteh Fani
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Masoud Alebouyeh
National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
Dearbhaile Morris, Louise O’Connor & Martin Cormican
Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Ministry of Health, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Jacob Moran-Gilad
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana, Rome, Italy
Antonio Battisti, Elena Lavinia Diaconu & Patricia Alba
CNR – Water Research Institute, Verbania, Italy
Gianluca Corno & Andrea Di Cesare
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Junzo Hisatsune, Liansheng Yu, Makoto Kuroda, Motoyuki Sugai & Shizuo Kayama
National Center of Expertise, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan
Zeinegul Shakenova
Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya
Ciira Kiiyukia
Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Eric Ng’eno
University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina” & National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo
Lul Raka
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Kazi Jamil, Saja Adel Fakhraldeen & Tareq Alaati
Institute of Food Safety, Riga, Latvia
Aivars Bērziņš, Jeļena Avsejenko, Kristina Kokina, Madara Streikisa & Vadims Bartkevics
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Ghassan M. Matar
Central Michigan University & Michigan Health Clinics, Saginaw, MI, USA
Ziad Daoud
National Food and Veterinary Risk Assessment Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
Asta Pereckienė & Ceslova Butrimaite-Ambrozeviciene
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg
Christian Penny
Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Alexandra Bastaraud & Jean-Marc Collard
University of Antananarivo, Centre d’Infectiologie Charles Mιrieux, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Tiavina Rasolofoarison, Luc Hervé Samison & Mala Rakoto Andrianarivelo
University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
Daniel Lawadi Banda
Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Arshana Amin
AIMST University, COMBio, Kedah, Malaysia
Heraa Rajandas & Sivachandran Parimannan
Water Services Corporation, Luqa, Malta
David Spiteri
Environmental Health Directorate, St. Venera, Malta
Malcolm Vella Haber
University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
Sunita J. Santchurn
Institute for Public Health Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Aleksandar Vujacic & Dijana Djurovic
Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco
Brahim Bouchrif & Bouchra Karraouan
Centro de Investigaηγo em Saϊde de Manhiηa (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique
Delfino Carlos Vubil
Agriculture and Forestry University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Pushkar Pal
National Institute for Public, Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Heike Schmitt & Mark van Passel
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Gert-Jan Jeunen & Neil Gemmell
University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
Stephen T. Chambers
University of Central America, Managua, Nicaragua
Fania Perez Mendoza & Jorge Huete-Pιrez
Universidad Nacional Autσnoma de Nicaragua-Leσn, Leσn, Nicaragua
Samuel Vilchez
University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Akeem Olayiwola Ahmed, Ibrahim Raufu Adisa & Ismail Ayoade Odetokun
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Kayode Fashae
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Anne-Marie Sørgaard & Astrid Louise Wester
VEAS, Slemmestad, Norway
Pia Ryrfors & Rune Holmstad
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Mashkoor Mohsin
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Rumina Hasan & Sadia Shakoor
Laboratorio Central de Salud Publica, Asuncion, Paraguay
Natalie Weiler Gustafson & Claudia Huber Schill
Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru
Maria Luz Zamudio Rojas
Universidad de Piura, Piura, Peru
Jorge Echevarria Velasquez & Felipe Campos Yauce
WHO Environmental and Occupational Health, Manila, Philippines
Bonifacio B. Magtibay
Maynilad Water Services, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines
Kris Catangcatang & Ruby Sibulo
National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland
Dariusz Wasyl
Universidade Catσlica Portuguesa, CBQF – Centro de Biotecnologia e Quνmica Fina – Laboratσrio Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal
Celia Manaia & Jaqueline Rocha
Aguas do Tejo Atlantico, Lisboa, Portugal
Jose Martins & Pedro Álvaro
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Doris Di Yoong Wen, Hanseob Shin & Hor-Gil Hur
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Sukhwan Yoon
Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
Golubinka Bosevska & Mihail Kochubovski
State Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
Radu Cojocaru
National Agency for Public Health, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
Olga Burduniuc
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Pei-Ying Hong
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Meghan Rose Perry
Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Amy Gassama
Institute of Veterinary Medicine of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Vladimir Radosavljevic
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Moon Y. F. Tay, Rogelio Zuniga-Montanez & Stefan Wuertz
Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovakia
Dagmar Gavačová, Katarína Pastuchová & Peter Truska
National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marija Trkov
Independent consultant, Johannesburg, South Africa
Karen Keddy
Daspoort Waste Water Treatment Works, Pretoria, South Africa
Kerneels Esterhuyse
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
Min Joon Song
School of Veterinary Sciences, Lugo, Spain
Marcos Quintela-Baluja
Labaqua, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mariano Gomez Lopez
IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar
University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
R. R. D. P. Perera, N. K. B. K. R. G. W. Bandara & H. I. Premasiri
Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sujatha Pathirage
Caribbean Public Health Agency, Catries, Saint Lucia
Kareem Charlemagne
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Carolin Rutgersson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Leif Norrgren & Stefan Örn
Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), Bern, Switzerland
Renate Boss
Ara Region Bern AG, Herrenschwanden, Switzerland
Tanja Van der Heijden
Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan
Yu-Ping Hong
Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Moshi, Tanzania
Happiness Houka Kumburu
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
Robinson Hammerthon Mdegela
Faculty of Science and Technology, Suratthani Rajabhat University, Surat Thani, Thailand
Kaknokrat Chonsin
Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Orasa Suthienkul
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Visanu Thamlikitkul
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands
Ana Maria de Roda Husman
National Institute of Hygiene, Lomι, Togo
Bawimodom Bidjada
Agence de Mιdecine Prιventive, Dapaong, Togo
Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade
Division of Integrated Surveillance of Health Emergencies and Response, Lomι, Togo
Somtinda Christelle Nikiema-Pessinaba
Public Health Institution of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey
Belkis Levent
Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
Cemil Kurekci
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Francis Ejobi & John Bosco Kalule
Abu Dhabi Public Health Center, Abu Dhai, United Arab Emirates
Jens Thomsen
Dubai municipality, WWTP Al Aweer, Dubai, UAE
Ouidiane Obaidi
Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Laila Mohamed Jassim
Northumbrian Water, Northumbria House, Abbey Road, Pity Me, Durham, UK
Andrew Moore
University of Exeter Medical School, Cornwall, UK
Anne Leonard, Lihong Zhang & William H. Gaze
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
David W. Graham & Joshua T. Bunce
Brightwater Treatment Plant, Woodinville, WA, USA
Brett Lefor
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Drew Capone & Joe Brown
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Emanuele Sozzi & Mark D. Sobsey
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
John Scott Meschke, Nicola Koren Beck, Pardi Sukapanpatharam & Phuong Truong
Baylor University, Waco, USA
Michael Davis
Columbia Boulevard WWTP, Portland, USA
Ronald Lilienthal
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, USA
Sanghoon Kang
The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, USA
Thomas E. Wittum
Laboratorio Tecnolσgico del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
Natalia Rigamonti & Patricia Baklayan
Institute of Public Health in Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Chinh Dang Van, Doan Minh Nguyen Tran & Nguyen Do Phuc
University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Geoffrey Kwenda
F.M.A., M.K., and M.W. conceived the study and secured funding. R.S.H., A.M.S., C.A.A.S., and J.S.K. organized sample collection, material transfer, and logistics. F.D.M., P.M., and C.B. did quality control, sample selection, and outlier detection. P.M., C.B., F.D.M., T.N.P., and F.B. performed bioinformatics analyses. P.M. and C.B. carried out data and statistical analyses and visualization. P.M. and F.M.A. drafted the initial manuscript with input from C.B., B.v.B., D.G.J.L., M.W., and M.K. The Global Sewage Consortium authors carried out sewage sampling, filled in metadata and shipped the samples to DTU. All authors helped to review and improve the manuscript.
Source: Ecology - nature.com