Table 2.

Incomplete but informative list of virus types present in human excreta and secreta

	Faeces	Urine	Saliva	Tears	Sweat	Reference
Adenovirus	+	+	+	+	?	Ramsay et al. (2002), Hatakeyama et al. (2006), Kaye et al. (2005)
Aichivirus	+	?	?	?	?	Yamashita et al. (2000)
Astrovirus	+	?	?	?	?	Guix et al. (2005)
Enterovirus	+	+	+	?	?	Ramsay et al. (2002), Muir et al. (1993)
Hepatitis A virus	+	?	+	?	?	Mackiewicz et al. (2004)
Hepatitis C virus	+	?	+	?	+	Beld et al. (2000), Ortiz-Movilla et al. (2002)
Hepatitis E virus	+	?	?	?	?	Singh et al. (1998)
Norovirus	+	?	?	?	?	Herrmann et al. (1985)
Parvovirus	?	?	+	?	?	Ramsay et al. (2002)
Picobirnavirus	+	?	?	?	?	Cascio et al. 1996, Banyai et al. (2003)
Polyomavirus	+	+	?	?	?	Hatakeyama et al. (2006), Berger et al. (2006)
Reovirus	+	?	?	?	?	Giordano et al. (2002)
Rotavirus	+	?	?	?	?	Bowdre (1983)
Sapovirus	+	?	?	?	?	Phan et al. (2006)
SARS coronavirus	+	+	+	?	+	Wang et al. (2004), Ding et al. (2004)
TT virus	+	–	+	+	–	Matsubara et al. (2000)

Note: +, studied and confirmed; –, studied but not detected; ?, no studies included in publications shown by search engine NCBI PubMed.