Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2014)

New Viruses in Idiopathic Human Diarrhea Cases, the Netherlands

  • Saskia L. Smits,
  • Claudia M.E. Schapendonk,
  • Janko van Beek,
  • Harry Vennema,
  • Anita C. Schürch,
  • Debby Schipper,
  • Rogier Bodewes,
  • Bart L. Haagmans,
  • Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus,
  • Marion P. Koopmans

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2007.140190
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 7
pp. 1218 – 1222

Abstract

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Emerging viral infections can be identified by using a viral metagenomics approach for clinical human material. Diarrhea samples of patients with unexplained gastroenteritis from the Netherlands were analyzed by using viral metagenomics. Novel circular DNA viruses, bufaviruses, and genogroup III picobirnaviruses were identified. These data expand our knowledge of the human virome.

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