Bacteriophages stories

Picobirnavirus reclassified as bacteriophage, not human pathogen

Researchers have redefined picobirnavirus, a virus found in the human gut microbiome that was long thought to directly infect human tissue and cause gastrointestinal disease, as a bacteriophage that instead infects bacteria. The discovery establishes picobirnaviruses as the third known clade of RNA bacteriophages.