Redondovirus Diversity and Evolution on Global, Individual, and Molecular Scales
Louis J. Taylor, Marisol I. Dothard, Meagan Rubel, Audrey Allen, Young Sun Hwang, Aoife M. Roche, Jevon Graham-Wooten, Ayannah S. Fitzgerald, Layla A. Khatib, Alessia Ranciaro, Simon R. Thompson, William Beggs, Michael C. Campbell, Gaonyadiwe George Mokone, Sununguko Wata Mpoloka, Charles Fokunang, Alfred K. Njamnshi, Eric Mbunwe, Dawit Woldemeskel, Gurja Belay, Thomas Nyambo, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ronald G. Collman, Frederic D. Bushman
Abstract
Redondoviridae is a recently established family of DNA viruses predominantly found in the human respiratory tract and associated with multiple clinical conditions. In this study, we found high redondovirus prevalence in saliva from urban North American individuals and nonindustrialized African populations in Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.