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- Title
Characterization of Diverse Anelloviruses, Cressdnaviruses, and Bacteriophages in the Human Oral DNA Virome from North Carolina (USA).
- Authors
Paietta, Elise N.; Kraberger, Simona; Custer, Joy M.; Vargas, Karla L.; Espy, Claudia; Ehmke, Erin; Yoder, Anne D.; Varsani, Arvind
- Abstract
The diversity of viruses identified from the various niches of the human oral cavity—from saliva to dental plaques to the surface of the tongue—has accelerated in the age of metagenomics. This rapid expansion demonstrates that our understanding of oral viral diversity is incomplete, with only a few studies utilizing passive drool collection in conjunction with metagenomic sequencing methods. For this pilot study, we obtained 14 samples from healthy staff members working at the Duke Lemur Center (Durham, NC, USA) to determine the viral diversity that can be identified in passive drool samples from humans. The complete genomes of 3 anelloviruses, 9 cressdnaviruses, 4 Caudoviricetes large bacteriophages, 29 microviruses, and 19 inoviruses were identified in this study using high-throughput sequencing and viral metagenomic workflows. The results presented here expand our understanding of the vertebrate-infecting and microbe-infecting viral diversity of the human oral virome in North Carolina (USA).
- Subjects
NORTH Carolina; DURHAM (N.C.); HUMAN DNA; DENTAL plaque; ENVIRONMENTAL sampling; VIRUS diversity; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; BACTERIOPHAGES
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 9, p1821
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v15091821