Cosmopolitan gut bacteriophages expand the phenotype of health-related bacteria

Abstract excerpt

Metagenomics has vastly expanded our knowledge of the human gut virome, yet the focus on dominant taxa has missed low-abundant but highly prevalent bacteriophages. Here, high-sensitivity taxonomic profiling of 53,976 samples from 42 countries, including non-industrialised populations and ancient DNA from five archaeological sites, reveals that only 0.3% of 64,238 phage genera are cosmopolitan, occurring in >20% of...

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• Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
• Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
• Diet and metabolism studies
• Gut microbiota and health
• Respiratory viral infections research
• Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

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Literature Corpus work

23e07ca9-008c-5a8d-aa04-6dd36f51c64a

DOI

10.64898/2026.05.08.723808