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We found more than 54,000 viruses in people's poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science

  • Written by Philip Hugenholtz, Professor of Microbiology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
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Research published today in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut — 92% of which were previously unknown.

But as we and our colleagues from the Joint Genome Institute and Stanford University in California found, the great majority of these were bacteriophages, or “phages”...

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