Virome Methodology in Animal Diseases

Abstract

Virus discovery is a novel and ascending field in science for the last decade. This field is important because of changing host interactions and novel viruses in animals is necessary both for understanding the origin of different virus species that can infect human hosts and for preventing new zoonotic infections. The COVID-19 discovery was shown all around the world, viruses can easily adopt other hosts. The goal of this presentation is to explain the state-of-the-art in virome studies in various animals and in different specimens with different methodologies such as next-generation sequencing with different taqmentation reagents and analyses total raw data in different pipeline. Specifically Chaphamaparvoviruses which belongs to Parvoviridae family have recently been detected in dogs, cats, pigs, rats, red-crowned cranes, turkeys and chickens, macaques, bats, Tasmanian devils, murine and fish. Another chaphamaparvovirus was recently found in the serum of a febrile Brazilian. Some chaphamaparvovirus members have been shown to cause nephropathy in laboratory mice and in tilapia fish. As a result virus discovery has important role in animal and human science and to learn methods in this area give privilege to researchers as well as countries, which may eventually become the epicenter of a new and unpredicted novel virus someday.

Keywords

• Next-generation sequencing
• virome
• metagenomic

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