Table 1.

Virus communities within the human gut.

Gut bacteriophages
Mostly double-stranded and single-stranded DNA phages:
Myoviridae, Podoviridae, Siphoviridae, Inoviridae and Microviridae
DNA viruses:
Double-stranded	Single-stranded
Adenoviridae	Anelloviridae
Herpesviridae	Circoviridae
Iridoviridae
Marseilleviridae
Mimiviridae
Papillomaviridae
Polyomaviridae
Poxviridae
RNA viruses
Double-stranded	Single-stranded
Picobimaviridae	Caliciviridae
Reoviridae	Astroviridae
	Virgaviridae
	Picornaviridae
	Retroviridae
	Togaviridae
Definitive pathogenic eukaryotic viruses infecting the gut
Rotavirus, norovirus, astrovirus, adenovirus (serotypes 40 and 41), enterovirus (only adenovirus is DNA virus, rest are all RNA viruses).