But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less attention: viruses. Wherever there are bacteria, viruses called bacteriophages lurk in prodigious quantities. These bacteria ...

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses infecting aquatic ...

In fact, viruses are the most diverse and numerous disease-causing organisms on Earth, infecting animals, plants, fungi and bacteria - as well as humans. Scientists have estimated that if each ...

This year, there has been no respite from these lung infection-triggering viruses and bacteria since there was no dengue or malaria outbreak. Etiologically, if one group of viruses dominates ...