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Phages and Human Health: More Than Idle Hitchhikers.
Review in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
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- High-resolution phage-host assignment through key proteins using large language models.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Metagenomic analysis of the human gut virome reveals functional signatures and viral stability across hospitalized and non-hospitalized diarrheal and non-diarrheal individuals.Gut pathogens · 2026Article
- Prophage: agent provocateur?Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- ProtPhage: a deep learning framework for phage viral protein identification and functional annotation.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025Article
- Advancing RNA phage biology through meta-omics.Nucleic acids research · 2025Review
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa maintains an inducible array of novel and diverse prophages over lengthy persistence in cystic fibrosis lungs.FEMS microbiology letters · 2025Article
- Metagenomic analysis reveals the diversity of the vaginal virome and its association with vaginitis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Integrating Bacteriophage onto the Magnetic Nanozyme for Effective Enrichment and Colorimetric Detection ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The gut microbiota and diabetes: research, translation, and clinical applications - 2023 Diabetes, Diabetes Care, and Diabetologia Expert Forum.Diabetologia · 2024Review
- The Gut Microbiota and Diabetes: Research, Translation, and Clinical Applications-2023 Diabetes, Diabetes Care, and Diabetologia Expert Forum.Diabetes care · 2024Review
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- The plasma viral communities associate with clinical profiles in a large-scale haematological patients cohort.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Comparative microbiome analysis in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- Phage Delivery Strategies for Biocontrolling Human, Animal, and Plant Bacterial Infections: State of the Art.Pharmaceutics · 2024Review
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- New Bacteriophages Members of thePHAGE (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Characteristics of a novel temperate bacteriophage against Staphylococcus arlettae (vB_SarS_BM31).International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023Article
- The human gut virome: composition, colonization, interactions, and impacts on human health.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and archaea. Phages have diverse morphologies and can be coded in DNA or RNA and as single or double strands with a large range of genome sizes. With the increasing use of metagenomic sequencing approaches to analyze complex samples, many studies generate massive amounts of "viral dark matter", or sequences of viral origin unable to be classified either functionally or taxonomically. Metagenomic analysis of phages is still in its infancy, and uncovering novel phages continues to be a challenge. Work over the past two decades has begun to uncover key roles for phages in different environments, including the human gut. Recent studies in humans have identified expanded phage populations in both healthy infants and in inflammatory bowel disease patients, suggesting distinct phage activity during development and in specific disease states. In this review, we examine our current knowledge of phage biology and discuss recent efforts to improve the analysis and discovery of novel phages. We explore the roles phages may play in human health and disease and discuss the future of phage research.
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