title: What is for dinner? Viral metagenomics of US store bought beef, pork, and chicken.
abstract: We describe here the metagenomics-derived viral sequences detected in beef, pork, and chicken purchased from stores in San Francisco. In beef we detected four previously reported viruses (two parvoviruses belonging to different genera, an anellovirus, and one circovirus-like virus) and one novel bovine polyomavirus species (BPyV2-SF) whose closest relatives infect primates. Detection of porcine hokovirus in beef indicated that this parvovirus can infect both ungulate species. In pork we detected four known parvoviruses from three genera, an anellovirus, and pig circovirus 2. Chicken meat contained numerous gyrovirus sequences including those of chicken anemia virus and of a novel gyrovirus species (GyV7-SF). Our results provide an initial characterization of some of the viruses commonly found in US store-bought meats which included a diverse group of parvoviruses and viral families with small circular DNA genomes. Whether any of these viruses can infect humans will require testing human sera for specific antibodies.
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang 212013, China; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
authors.forename: Linlin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
authors.forename: Xutao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
authors.forename: Beatrix
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kapusinszky
authors.affiliation: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA. Electronic address: delwarte@medicine.ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delwart
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D008460:Meat / Q000821:virology*; D056186:Metagenomics / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D013552:Swine; D014780:Viruses / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*
keywords: Gyrovirus; Meat; Parvoviridae; Polyomaviridae; Viral metagenomics