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Viruses that exclusively infect bacteria. Bacteriophages -- phages for short -- are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, outnumbering bacteria in most environments by ratios of 1:1 to 10:1. In the human gut, the phageome represents a powerful but underexplore…
The community of trillions of microorganisms — bacteria, archaea, fungi (mycobiome), viruses, and bacteriophages — inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract, with the highest density in the colon (~10¹¹ cells/g). The gut microbiome encodes 100–150 times more genes tha…
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This page serves as a redirect and cross-reference point for the comprehensive virome concept page, which covers the gut virome, bacteriophage-bacteria interactions, phage therapy, and virome-disease associations in detail. The term viral microbiota emphasizes that viru…
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