Why are so many enteric pathogen infections asymptomatic? Pathogen and gut microbiome characteristics associated with diarrhea symptoms and carriage of diarrheagenic <i>E. coli</i> in northern Ecuador.

"all sequencing data is publicly available under ncbi bioproject prjna486009 and associated metadata and sequencing/assembly metrics are listed in the supplementary material (supplementary tables3-6).; data availability statement the data that support the findings of this study are openly available under ncbi bioproject prjna486009. data availability statement the data that support the findings of this study are openly available under ncbi bioproject prjna486009"

"we used the "standard" refseq database (available at https://benlangmead github io/aws-indexes/k2 ) to run kraken 2 which includes references sequences from archaea bacteria viruses plasmids and humans.; r code is available on github: https://github com/kjojess/ecozur-symptomatic-asymptomatic-manuscript ."

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