(I'm a bachelor student of bioinformatics and I'm interested in these topics)
Some studies have shown that pathogenic retroviruses (for our immune cells) can infect fungi and bacterias as well, so if these kind of viruses go to the digestive system (specifically the large intestine) instead of blood vessels and somehow they find their suitable hosts among those microbiomes they can dominate there. So as long as they do not find their paths in blood they can be stealth even become as our normal flora (which means even body will support them)
so these genomic based tests such as PCR can detect them? perhaps only stool exams? I mean at this situation the answer of this question is not "YES"?
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I have a question;
(I'm a bachelor student of bioinformatics and I'm interested in these topics)
Some studies have shown that pathogenic retroviruses (for our immune cells) can infect fungi and bacterias as well, so if these kind of viruses go to the digestive system (specifically the large intestine) instead of blood vessels and somehow they find their suitable hosts among those microbiomes they can dominate there. So as long as they do not find their paths in blood they can be stealth even become as our normal flora (which means even body will support them) so these genomic based tests such as PCR can detect them? perhaps only stool exams? I mean at this situation the answer of this question is not "YES"?