Molecular characterization of the fecal viromes in swine (Sus scrofa domesticus) in northern Thailand

The limited investigations conducted on DNA viruses are inadequate in comprehensively portraying the spectrum of porcine-associated DNA viruses. To gain a deeper insight into the diversity of DNA viruses present in swine, the present study employed metagenomic sequencing to scrutinize the fecal DNA virome of swine specimens procured from the rural backyard farms of the northern region of Thailand. This study region is known to have many backyard farms of swine, a locality renowned for its high concentration of swine domestication and sporadically hotspots of porcine-borne diseases, such as Japanese encephalitis virus and hepatitis E virus.