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High\u2010throughput microfluidic real\u2010time PCR as a promising tool in disease ecology. <jats:italic>Journal of Animal Ecology<\/jats:italic>, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2656.70088\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365\u20102656.70088<\/jats:ext-link>. Disease ecology aims to understand the causes and consequences of the maintenance and transmission of pathogenic infectious agents. A crucial step in studying disease ecology is identifying the \u2018infectiosome\u2019, which I define as all infectious agents circulating among individuals, populations and the community of a given ecosystem. In a recent study, Bralet et\u00a0al. (2025) propose a new, cheap and adaptable toolkit for determining a targeted \u2018infectiosome\u2019, which appears very useful in disease ecology approaches: high\u2010throughput microfluidic real\u2010time PCR (Htrt PCR). This method is a good alternative to costly metagenomic approaches and consists of running several dozen PCRs from a single tissue sample. This technique enables screening, from a single sample, the presence of dozens of targeted infectious agents: the targeted \u2018infectiosome\u2019, allowing one to answer several questions. For example, Bralet et\u00a0al. (2025) applied this method to 274 seabirds and 80 mammals samples collected from the Southern Ocean islands and detected pathogenic infectious agents in new locations. The results also show that some species are potential \u2018reservoirs\u2019 of several infectious agents in this ecosystem. 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