Emerging viral infections can be identified by using a viral metagenomics approach for clinical human material. Diarrhea samples of patients with unexplained gastroenteritis from the Netherlands were analyzed by using viral metagenomics. Novel circular DNA viruses, bufaviruses, and genogroup III picobirnaviruses were identified. These data expand our knowledge of the human virome.

doi.org/10.3201/eid2007.140190, hdl.handle.net/1765/86322
Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access)
Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam

Smits, S., Schapendonk, C., van Beek, J., Vennema, H., Schürch, A., Schipper, D., … Koopmans, M., D.V.M. (2014). New viruses in idiopathic human diarrhea cases, the Netherlands. Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access), 20(7), 1218–1222. doi:10.3201/eid2007.140190