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. 2017 Mar 22;13(3):e1006292. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006292

Table 1. Detected human viruses in blood DNA of 8,240 individuals.

Virus Number1 of individuals Percentage of individuals Number of sequencing reads per individual Abundance2 of viral genomes per individual Coverage of viral genome
Median Maximum Median Maximum Minimum Maximum
Human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) 1,678 20.37% 2 702 10 2,860 0.001 0.688
Human herpesvirus 4 (HHV-4, EBV) 1,190 14.45% 4 732,061 12 2,404,531 0.001 637.338
Anellovirus (TTV & TLMV) 734 8.91% 2 2,416 359 392,179 0.046 110.236
Human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B) 395 4.80% 2 26,738 9 97,274 0.001 24.74
Human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A) 121 1.47% 6 38,254 20 134,595 0.001 36.016
Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPvV) 49 0.59% 2 8 236 935 0.028 0.223
Human herpesvirus 5 (HHV-5, CMV) 29 0.35% 2 106 5 338 0.001 0.067
Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1/2) 22 0.27% 13 131 820 13,143 0.034 2.251
Human papillomavirus (HPV) 173 0.19% 2 106,590 162 3,521,083 0.02 2,179.46
Human herpesvirus 1 (HHV-1, HSV-1) 10 0.12% 2 34 9 123 0.001 0.034
Human parvovirus B19 104 0.12% 167 2,841,285 19,298 302,149,810 0.028 78,459.64
Human adenovirus 9 0.11% 1 11 19 235 0.004 0.046
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1/2) 5 0.06% 2 3 142 275 0.015 0.046
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8, KSHV) 3 0.04% 2 4 8 17 0.002 0.004
Human polyomavirus 3 0.04% 2 4 297 588 0.061 0.122
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 2 0.02% 3 4 460 521 0.093 0.186
Trichodysplasia spinulosa polyomavirus 1 0.01% 2 2 219 219 0.057 0.057
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) 1 0.01% 18 18 912 912 0.286 0.286
Influenza A virus 1 0.01% 4 4 3,212 3,128 0.584 0.582

1 Some individuals may carry more than one virus.

2 Abundance is estimated per 100,000 human cells.

3Four samples possibly due to cross-contamination.

4 Four samples possibly due to cross-contamination.