Maya Wardeh

Recruitment and sample collection was described previously [18]. Briefly, stool was collected from 1,067 members of the public with symptoms of acute gastroenteritis via practices in the Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre National Monitoring Network (RCGP RSC NMN). Patients meeting inclusion criteria were invited to submit a stool sample for microbiological analysis.

1 INTRODUCTION More than half of the infectious diseases that emerged in humans over the last five decades have an animal origin, that is, are zoonoses (Jones et al., 2008; Kock & Caceres-Escobar, 2022). Among these, diseases with a wildlife reservoir represent a major and rising public health concern (Kruse et al., 2004; Morse et al., 2012; Smith et al., 2014).

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Wardeh M, Pilgrim J, Hui M, Kotsiri A, Baylis M, Blagrove MSC (2024) Features that matter: Evolutionary signatures can predict viral transmission routes. PLoS Pathog 20(10): e1012629.