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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 Soares
Published 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.
Keyphrases
  • gene therapy
  • sars cov
  • genetic diversity
  • gram negative
  • multidrug resistant