Metagenomics poses opportunities for clinical and public health virology applications by
offering a way to assess complete taxonomic composition of a clinical sample in an …

BACKGROUND Many emerging infectious pathogens are well known for existing in healthy
blood donors and could be transmitted via blood transfusion or plasma derivatives usage …

The residual risk of post‐transfusion human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is low
but slightly higher for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), the main reason …

Viruses are part of the microbiome and have essential roles in immunology, evolution,
biogeochemical cycles, health, and disease progression. Viruses influence a wide variety of …

Highlights•High-throughput sequencing can be used to study virus–host interactions.•
Sequencing can be used for virus discovery and detection of emerging pathogens.• …

A spectrum of blood-borne infectious agents is transmitted through transfusion of infected
blood donated by apparently healthy and asymptomatic blood donors. The diversity of …

Accurate classification of the human virome is critical to a full understanding of the role
viruses play in health and disease. This implies the need for sensitive, specific, and practical …

During their evolution, human beings, as every other animal and vegetable species, have
had to face innumerable challenges from the world of microorganisms. Indeed, the history of …

In contrast to microbial metagenomics, there has still been only limited efforts to benchmark
performance of virome analysis approaches in terms of faithfulness to community structure …

Background Analysis of viral diversity using modern sequencing technologies offers
extraordinary opportunities for discovery. However, these analyses present a number of …