A plate of viruses: Viral metagenomics of supermarket chicken, pork and beef from Brazil

• Published in: Virology (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 552; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Cibulski, Samuel, Alves de Lima, Diane, Fernandes dos Santos, Helton, Teixeira, Thais Fumaco, Tochetto, Caroline, Mayer, Fabiana Quoos, Roehe, Paulo Michel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 02-01-2021
• Subjects: Anelloviridae; Anelloviridae - classification; Anelloviridae - genetics; Animals; Brazil - epidemiology; Chickens - virology; Cressdnaviricota; DNA, Viral; Gemonoviridae; Gyrovirus - classification; Gyrovirus - genetics; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Meat virome; Metagenomics; Parvoviridae; Parvovirus, Porcine - classification; Parvovirus, Porcine - genetics; Phylogeny; Pork Meat - virology; Red Meat - virology; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Supermarkets; Viral metagenomics; Viruses - classification; Viruses - genetics; Viruses - isolation & purification; Brazil; Viral metagenomics; Anelloviridae; Cressdnaviricota; Parvoviridae; Gemonoviridae; Meat virome
• ISSN: 0042-6822; 1096-0341; 1096-0341
• DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2020.09.005

A viral metagenomics study was conducted in beef, pork, and chicken sold in supermarkets from Southern Brazil. From chicken, six distinct gyroviruses (GyV) were detected, including GyV3 and GyV6, which for the first time were detected in samples from avian species, plus a novel smacovirus species and two highly divergent circular Rep-encoding ssDNA (CRESS-DNA) viruses. From pork, genomes of numerous anelloviruses, porcine parvovirus 5 (PPV5) and 6 (PPV6), two new genomoviruses and two new CRESS-DNA viruses were found. Finally, two new CRESS-DNA genomes were recovered from beef. Although none of these viruses have history of transmission to humans, the findings reported here reveal that such agents are inevitably consumed in diets that include these types of meat.
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•Diverse gyroviruses in chicken meat.•First detection of Gyrovirus 3 in an avian species.•Two new porcine genomoviruses from pork.•Multiple anelloviruses from pork.•Highly divergent Cressdnaviricota genomes in meat samples.