Assessment of the gorilla gut virome in association with natural simian immunodeficiency virus infection.
Mirela D'arcCarolina FurtadoJuliana D SiqueiraHéctor N SeuánezAhidjo AyoubaMartine PeetersMarcelo Alves SoaresPublished in: Retrovirology (2018)
Our results suggested that viromes might be potentially used as markers of lentiviral disease progression in wild gorilla populations. The diverse mammalian viral families, herein described in SIVgor-infected gorillas, may play a pivotal role in a disease progression still unclear in these animals but already well characterized in pathogenic lentiviral infections in other organisms. Larger sample sets should be further explored to reduce intrinsic sampling variation.