The Human Virome: Viral Metagenomics, Relations with Human Diseases, and Therapeutic Applications.

ABSTRACT: The human body is colonized by a wide range of microorganisms. The field of viromics has expanded since the first reports on the detection of viruses via metagenomic sequencing in 2002. With the continued development of reference materials and databases, viral metagenomic approaches have been used to explore known components of the virome and discover new viruses from various types of samples. The virome has attracted substantial interest since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Increasing numbers of studies and review articles have documented the diverse virome in various sites in the human body, as well as interactions between the human host and the virome with regard to health and disease. However, there have been few studies of direct causal relationships

SUBMITTER: Bai GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8876576 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature