Association of gut microbial dysbiosis with disease severity, response to therapy and disease outcomes in Indian patients with COVID-19.

"data availability the 16s rrna gene sequences generated in this study has been submitted in the national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) sequence read archive (sra) portaland the sequences will be available in the bioproject: prjna895415 (submission id: sub12205249) after acceptance of the manuscript."

"Declarations Ethical approvalThe studies were done with approval of the institutional ethics committees of ID & BG Hospital (IDBGH/Ethics/2429) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India, in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. Written informed consents were taken from all subjects. Conflict of interestAuthors declare absence of any conflict of interests. Conflict of interest Authors declare absence of any conflict of interests."

"Funding The study was funded by grant MLP-129 from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, to D.G. D.G. is also supported by Swarnajayanti Fellowship (DST/SJF/LSA-3/2-16-17) from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and National Bioscience Award (BT/HRD/NBA/39/02/2018-19) from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. BD received financial support from the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (Intramural 2021) and Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India (Grant No. BT/PR38173/MED/97/474/2020)."