Enteric viruses seize their immunomodulatory niche

Enteric eukaryotic viruses are increasingly recognized as non-pathogenic, immunomodulatory participants in the healthy intestinal microbiota. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Dallari et al. (2021) use a single virus infection approach to reveal both generalized viral immune responses and numerous unique, virus-specific response profiles.

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The study reveals that enteric eukaryotic viruses play an immunomodulatory role in the healthy intestinal microbiota, and using a single virus infection approach, it uncovers both generalized viral immune responses and numerous unique, virus-specific response profiles.