A plate of viruses: Viral metagenomics of supermarket chicken, pork and beef from Brazil.

A plate of viruses: Viral metagenomics of supermarket chicken, pork and beef from Brazil. Virology. 2020 Sep 28;552:1-9 Authors: Cibulski S, Alves de Lima D, Fernandes Dos Santos H, Teixeira TF, Tochetto C, Mayer FQ, Roehe PM Abstract A viral metagenomics study was conducted in beef, pork, and chicken sold in supermarkets from Southern Brazil. From chicken, six distinct gyroviruses (GyV) were detected, including GyV3 and GyV6, which for the first time were detected in samples from avian species, plus a novel smacovirus species and two highly divergent circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS-DNA) viruses. From pork, genomes of numerous anelloviruses, porcine parvovirus 5 (PPV5) and 6 (PPV6), two new genomoviruses and two new CRESS-DNA viruses were found. Finally, two new CRESS-DNA genomes were recovered from beef. Although none of these viruses have history of transmission to humans, the findings reported here reveal that such agents are inevitably consumed in diets that include these types of meat. PMID: 33032031 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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