5 challenges in understanding the role of the virome in health and disease

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Over the past decade, many studies have established linkages between the microbiome and states of health and disease.By contrast, understanding of the corresponding virome (i.e., the set of all viruses, both eukaryotic and prokaryotic, in a given niche) has lagged substantially behind.There are relatively few virome studies in comparison to microbiome studies.Nonetheless, in recent years, there has been an...

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