Impact of Blastocystis carriage and colonization intensity on gut microbiota composition in a non-westernized rural population from Colombia

• Sergio Castañeda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología-UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Jeff Tomiak,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Stavanger, Department of Chemistry, Bioscience, and Environmental Engineering, Stavanger, Norway

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• Lee O’Brien Andersen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Claudia Patricia Acosta,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Grupo de investigación en Genética Humana, Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Cauca,

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• Luis Reinel Vasquez-A,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Centro de Estudios en Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

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• Christen Rune Stensvold,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Juan David Ramírez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: juand.ramirez@urosario.edu.co, juan.ramirezgonzalez@mssm.edu

  Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología-UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York city, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1344-9312

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