mSystems (Jun 2021)

Viral Metagenome-Based Precision Surveillance of Pig Population at Large Scale Reveals Viromic Signatures of Sample Types and Influence of Farming Management on Pig Virome

  • Biao He,
  • Wenjie Gong,
  • Xiaomin Yan,
  • Zihan Zhao,
  • Ling’en Yang,
  • Zhizhou Tan,
  • Lin Xu,
  • Aiwei Zhu,
  • Jianing Zhang,
  • Jihong Rao,
  • Xinglong Yu,
  • Jianfeng Jiang,
  • Zongji Lu,
  • Yifang Zhang,
  • Jianmin Wu,
  • Yong Li,
  • Yuxiang Shi,
  • Qing Jiang,
  • Xiwen Chen,
  • Changchun Tu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00420-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3

Abstract

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Pigs are deeply involved in human lives; hence, their viruses are associated with public health. Here, we established the most comprehensive virome of healthy piglets to date, which provides a viromic baseline of weaned pigs for disease prevention and control, highlighting that longitudinal viromic monitoring is needed to better understand the dynamics of the virome in pig development and disease occurrence.