Tales from the crypt and coral reef: the successes and challenges of identifying new herpesviruses using metagenomics
Herpesviruses are ubiquitous double-stranded DNA viruses infecting many animals, with the capacity to cause disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. Different herpesviruses have different cell tropisms, and have been detected in a diverse range of tissues and sample types.Metagen...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00188/full |