Excess fermentation and lactic acidosis as detrimental functions of the gut microbes in treatment-naive TB patients.

"the shotgun metagenomic data used in this study are available in the ncbi database under bioproject accession code prjna1061168."

"Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant number 22-25-00272 (Clinical assessment and recruitment of patients, collection of biological samples, DNA extraction and shotgun sequencing, statistical analyses). This research is funded in part by the Saint Petersburg State University, grant ID PURE 94030965 (Computational analyses)."