Humans are colonized by many uncharacterized and highly divergent microbes
M. A. Kowarsky, J. Camunas-Soler, M. Kertesz, I. De Vlaminck, L. C. W. Koh, W. Pan, L. Martin, N. Neff, J. Okamoto, R. J. Wong, S. Kharbanda, Y. El-Sayed, Y. Blumenfeld, D. K. Stevenson, G. M. Shaw, , S. R. Quake
The paper identifies hundreds of new bacteria and viruses in the human microbiome using blood-based shotgun sequencing and validates their existence through independent experiments and PCR.
bioRxiv · Mar 4, 2017Microbiology