Stephen R. Stockdale

TL;DR: Bacteriophages of the crAssphage family have not yet been isolated in culture and it is shown that it infects the human gut symbiont Bacteroides intestinalis, confirming previous in silico predictions of the likely host.

TL;DR: Comparing genomics and taxonomic analysis enabled a classification scheme of crAss-like phages from human fecal microbiomes into four candidate subfamilies composed of ten candidate genera, and mass spectrometry of a crAss -like phage capsid protein could be linked to metagenomic sequencing data, confirming crAss, like phage structural annotations.

TL;DR: A relatively simple, reproducible and cost-efficient protocol for the extraction of viral nucleic acids from human faecal samples, suitable for high-throughput studies and to reduce discrepancies observed within and between research groups studying the human gut phageome.

TL;DR: The Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study (PHOSP-COVID) as mentioned in this paper is a prospective, longitudinal cohort study recruiting adults (aged ≥18 years) discharged from hospital with COVID19 across the UK.

TL;DR: A massive expansion in RNA-encoded bacterial viral genomes, which have been overlooked within environments, is reported, including 15,611 nonredundant ssRNA phage sequences, including 1015 near-complete genomes.