Enteric virome of Ethiopian children participating in a clean water intervention trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The enteric viruses shed by different populations can be influenced by multiple factors including access to clean drinking water. We describe here the eukaryotic viral genomes in the feces of Ethiopian children participating in a clean water intervention trial.

Methodology/principal findings

Fecal samples from 269 children with a mean age of 2.7 years were collected from 14 villages in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, half of which received a new hand-dug water well. Feces from these villages were then analyzed in 29 sample pools using viral metagenomics. A total of 127 different viruses belonging to 3 RNA and 3 DNA viral families were detected. Picornaviridae family sequence reads were the most commonly found, originating from 14 enterovirus and 6 parechovirus geno

SUBMITTER: Altan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6095524 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature