Complex virome in feces from Amerindian children in isolated Amazonian villages.
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SUBMITTER: Siqueira JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6189175 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
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Complex virome in feces from Amerindian children in isolated Amazonian villages.
Siqueira Juliana D JD Dominguez-Bello Maria Gloria MG Contreras Monica M Lander Orlana O Caballero-Arias Hortensia H Xutao Deng D Noya-Alarcon Oscar O Delwart Eric E
Nature communications 20181015 1
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 eukaryotic virome in feces from healthy children from a large urban center and from three Amerindian villages with minimal outside contact. Numerous human enteric viruses, mainly from the Picornaviridae and Caliciviridae families, were sequenced from each of the sites. Multiple children from the same villages shed cl ...[more]
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