Emerging viral infections can be identified by using a viral metagenomics approach for
clinical human material. Diarrhea samples of patients with unexplained gastroenteritis from …

Parvoviruses infect a wide variety of hosts, and their ancestors appear to have emerged tens
to hundreds of millions of years ago and to have spread widely ever since. The diversity of …

The number of viruses circulating in small isolated human populations may be reduced by
viral extinctions and rare introductions. Here we used viral metagenomics to characterize the …

In Quito, the microbiological contamination of surface water represents a public health
problem, mainly due to the lack of sewage treatment from urban wastewater. Contaminated …

Associations between the global microbiome and diseases of children have been studied
extensively; however, research on the viral component of the microbiome, the" virome," is …

With the development of viral metagenomics and next-generation sequencing technology,
more and more novel parvoviruses have been identified in recent years, including even …

Parvoviruses have a linear single-stranded DNA genome, around 5 kb in length, with short
imperfect terminal palindromes that fold back on themselves to form duplex hairpin …

Comparing sequences of archived viruses collected over many years to the present allows
the study of viral evolution and contributes to the design of new vaccines. However, the …

Little is known about the population of eukaryotic viruses in the human gut (“virome”) or the
potential role it may play in disease. We used a metagenomic approach to define and …

Bats have been increasingly gaining attention as potential reservoir hosts of some of the
most virulent viruses known. Numerous review articles summarize bats as potential reservoir …