Structure and function of the human skin microbiome

NN Schommer, RL Gallo - Trends in microbiology, 2013 - cell.com
An abundant and diverse collection of bacteria, fungi, and viruses inhabits the human skin.
These microorganisms vary between individuals and between different sites on the skin. The …

Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery

JL Mokili, F Rohwer, BE Dutilh - Current opinion in virology, 2012 - Elsevier
Monitoring the emergence and re-emergence of viral diseases with the goal of containing
the spread of viral agents requires both adequate preparedness and quick response …

A novel porcine circovirus distantly related to known circoviruses is associated with porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome and reproductive failure

R Palinski, P Piñeyro, P Shang, F Yuan, R Guo… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) is clinically manifested by postweaning
multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), respiratory and enteric disease, reproductive …

A cloud-compatible bioinformatics pipeline for ultrarapid pathogen identification from next-generation sequencing of clinical samples

SN Naccache, S Federman, N Veeraraghavan… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Unbiased next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches enable comprehensive pathogen
detection in the clinical microbiology laboratory and have numerous applications for public …

A primer on metagenomics

JC Wooley, A Godzik, I Friedberg - PLoS computational biology, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Metagenomics is a discipline that enables the genomic study of uncultured microorganisms.
Faster, cheaper sequencing technologies and the ability to sequence uncultured microbes …

Domestic animals as potential reservoirs of zoonotic viral diseases

O Tomori, DO Oluwayelu - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Zoonoses are diseases and infections naturally transmitted between humans and vertebrate
animals. Over the years, zoonoses have become increasingly significant threats to global …

Human skin microbiota: high diversity of DNA viruses identified on the human skin by high throughput sequencing

V Foulongne, V Sauvage, C Hebert, O Dereure… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The human skin is a complex ecosystem that hosts a heterogeneous flora. Until recently, the
diversity of the cutaneous microbiota was mainly investigated for bacteria through culture …

Biodiversity loss and COVID-19 pandemic: The role of bats in the origin and the spreading of the disease

S Platto, J Zhou, Y Wang, H Wang, E Carafoli - … and biophysical research …, 2021 - Elsevier
The loss of biodiversity in the ecosystems has created the general conditions that have
favored and, in fact, made possible, the insurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of …

Expanding the RNA virosphere by unbiased metagenomics

YZ Zhang, YM Chen, W Wang, XC Qin… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Although viruses comprise the most abundant genetic material in the biosphere, to date only
several thousand virus species have been formally defined. Such a limited perspective on …

Retrieval and investigation of data on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 using bioinformatics approach

M Fahmi, VD Kharisma, ANM Ansori, M Ito - Coronavirus disease-COVID …, 2021 - Springer
Sudden emergence and a rapid outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 accompanied by a devastating
impact on the economy and public health has driven extensive scientific mobilization to …