| metagenomic identification of novel enteric viruses in urban wild rats and genome characterization of a group a rotavirus. | rats are known as reservoirs and vectors for several zoonotic pathogens. however, information on the viruses shed by urban wild rats that could pose a zoonotic risk to human health is scare. here, intestinal contents from 20 wild norway rats (rattus norvegicus) collected in the city of berlin, germany, were subjected to metagenomic analysis of viral nucleic acids. the determined faecal viromes of rats consisted of a variety of known and unknown viruses, and were highly variable among the individ ... | 2014 | 25121550 |