and rapid method to diagnose infection by comparing genetic material found in a patient's sample to databases of all known microscopic human pathogens and thousands of other bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic organisms and databases on antimicrobial resistances gene sequences with associated clinical phenotypes. Arbovirus surveillance Metagenomics has been an invaluable tool to help characterise the diversity and ecology of pathogens that are vectored by hematophagous (blood-feeding) insects such as mosquitoes and ticks. Metagenomics is routinely used by public health officials and organisations for the surveillance of arboviruses. See also Binning Epidemiology and sewage Metaproteomics Microbial ecology Pathogenomics References External links Focus on Metagenomics at Nature Reviews Microbiology journal website The “Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation” (CAMI) initiative to evaluate methods in metagenomics Bioinformatics Genomics Environmental microbiology Microbiology techniques