@article{mbs:/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.000644, author = "Ngoi, Carolyne N. and Siqueira, Juliana and Li, Linlin and Deng, Xutao and Mugo, Peter and Graham, Susan M. and Price, Matt A. and Sanders, Eduard J. and Delwart, Eric", title = "The plasma virome of febrile adult Kenyans shows frequent parvovirus B19 infections and a novel arbovirus (Kadipiro virus)", journal= "Journal of General Virology", year = "2016", volume = "97", number = "12", pages = "3359-3367", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000644", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.000644", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2099", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "metagenomic", keywords = "fever", keywords = "parvovirus B19", keywords = "Kadipiro virus", keywords = "Virome", abstract = "Viral nucleic acids present in the plasma of 498 Kenyan adults with unexplained fever were characterized by metagenomics analysis of 51 sample pools. The highest to lowest fraction of plasma pools was positive for parvovirus B19 (75 %), pegivirus C (GBV-C) (67 %), alpha anellovirus (59 %), gamma anellovirus (55 %), beta anellovirus (41 %), dengue virus genotype 2 (DENV-2) (16 %), human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (6 %), human herpesvirus 6 (6 %), HBV (4 %), rotavirus (4 %), hepatitis B virus (4 %), rhinovirus C (2 %), Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV; 2 %) and Kadipiro virus (2 %). Ranking by overall percentage of viral reads yielded similar results. Characterization of viral nucleic acids in the plasma of a febrile East African population showed a high frequency of parvovirus B19 and DENV infections and detected a reovirus (Kadipiro virus) previously reported only in Asian Culex mosquitoes, providing a baseline to compare with future virome studies to detect emerging viruses in this region.", }