The infant gut virome is associated with preschool asthma risk independently of bacteria CL Rodriguez et al, Nature Medicine, December 15, 2023

https://phgkb.cdc.gov/PHGKB/phgHome.action?action=archive&date=12/15/2023 From the abstract: "Here, we analyze the gut virome of 647 children aged 1?year from the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood2010 (COPSAC2010) mother–child cohort, all deeply phenotyped from birth and with longitudinally assessed asthma diagnoses. Specific temperate gut phage taxa were found to be associated with later development of asthma. In particular, the joint abundances of 19 caudoviral families were found to significantly contribute to this association. Combining the asthma-associated virome and bacteriome signatures had additive effects on asthma risk."