Table 39.1.
The Human Virome—Viruses Commonly Isolated from Healthy Individuals
Site | Virus | Possible Diseases |
---|---|---|
Skin | Betapapillomaviruses (types 5, 9, 49) | Skin cancer in patients with epidermodysplasia verruciformis |
Gammapapillomaviruses (types 4, 48 50, 60, 88) | None known | |
Polyomaviruses (Merkel cell polyoma virus, HPyV6, HPyV7, HPyV9) | Merkel cell carcinoma; none known for other human polyomaviruses | |
Circoviruses (human gyroviruses) | None known | |
Gut | Anelloviruses (Torque tenoviruses (TT), TT mini viruses and TT midi viruses) | None known |
Picobirnaviruses | None known (? diarrhea) | |
Human enteroviruses and parechoviruses | Various syndromes (see Chapter 32: Picornaviruses) | |
Human bocavirus, adenovirus groups C and F, Aichi virus, astrovirus, rotavirus | Gastroenteritis during acute infection | |
Circoviruses (human gyroviruses) | None known | |
Systemic | Anelloviruses (Torque tenoviruses (TT) and TT-like mini viruses) | None known |
Herpesviruses (HSV and VZV in neurons; CMV, EBV, HHV-6, and HHV7 in circulating lymphocytes) | Various syndromes in acute infection and reactivation (see Chapter 17: Herpesviruses) |