Comparison of viral communities in the blood, feces and various tissues of wild brown rats (Rattus norvegicus).

ABSTRACT: Viral diseases caused by new outbreaks of viral infections pose a serious threat to human health. Wild brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), considered one of the world's largest and most widely distributed rodents, are host to various zoonotic pathogens. To further understand the composition of the virus community in wild brown rats and explore new types of potentially pathogenic viruses, viral metagenomics was conducted to investigate blood, feces, and various tissues of wild brown rats captured from Zhenjiang, China. Results indicated that the composition of the virus community in different samples showed significant differences. In blood and tissue samples, members of the Parvoviridae and Anelloviridae form the main body of the virus community. Picornaviridae,

SUBMITTER: Zhuang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10300334 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature