The Human Gut Virome Is Highly Diverse, Stable, and Individual Specific

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 527-541.e5

  Shkoporov, Andrey N ^a   Clooney, Adam G ^a   Sutton, Thomas D S ^a   Ryan, Feargal J ^a   Daly, Karen M ^a   Nolan, James A ^a   McDonnell, Siobhan A ^a   Khokhlova, Ekaterina V ^a   Draper, Lorraine A ^a   Forde, Amanda ^a   Guerin, Emma ^a   Velayudhan, Vimalkumar ^a   Ross, R Paul ^a   Hill, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

bacteriophages; crAss like phages; crAssphage; CRISPR; human microbiome; longitudinal study; Microviridae; persistent personal virome; phageome; virome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MICROBIOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTEROIDES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREVOTELLA; VIRUS GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

BACTEROIDES; FAECALIBACTERIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; METAGENOME; MICROVIRIDAE; PREVOTELLA; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85072511956     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.09.009     Document Type: Article

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