Virus Related Study: More than 54 thousand viruses have been found in the intestines of humans. This has been said in a study, which has been published in Nature Microbiology.
Virus in Human Intestine – Symbolic picture
Virus in Human Intestine: A study published in Nature Microbiology identified 54,118 species of viruses living in the human gut, 92 percent of which were previously thought to be unknown. Philipp Hugenholtz and Sue Jan Lowe of The University of Queensland talked about this. He said that his colleagues from the Joint Genome Institute in California and Stanford University found that most of these species are bacterial strains. These viruses ‘eat’ bacteria but cannot attack human cells.
When most of us hear the name of a virus, we start thinking about the organisms that infect our cells with diseases like mumps, measles or the current covid-19. There is a large number of these microscopic parasites in our body and especially in the stomach. Which targets the microbes found in them. Recently there has been a great interest in learning about the microbiome that lives in our gut. These micro-organisms not only help us to digest food but many of them have a very important role.
Species not grown in the lab
They protect us from pathogenic bacteria, regulate our mental health, strengthen our immune systems in childhood and play a constant role in immune regulation as adults (Study on Viruses). It is fair to say that the human gut is now the most well-studied microbial ecosystem on the planet. Yet more than 70 percent of the microbe species found in it have not yet been grown in the laboratory.
Samples taken from many countries
In our new research, we and our colleagues computationally isolated viral sequences from the metagenomes of stool samples from people from 24 different countries (Latest Study on Viruses), said Philipp Huygenholtz and Sue Jan Lowe. We wanted to get an idea of the extent to which viruses have made their way into human feces. This effort resulted in the creation of the Metagenomic Gut Virus Catalog, the largest resource of its kind to date.
Shocking patterns in 24 countries
This catalog contains information on 189,680 viral genomes, representing more than 50,000 distinct viral species. Remarkably more than 90% of these viral species are new to science. They collectively encode over 450,000 different proteins (Human Intestine Virus Study). We also studied different virus subspecies and found some startling patterns in the 24 countries included in the study.
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