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
ShutterstockResearch 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”...
