Missing the forest for the trees: time to address stool microbial load and everything else that realistically matters in microbiome studies

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Authors’ contributions

TTO designed the study and wrote the manuscript, CAP and RA reviewed the paper and made critical revisions. All authors accepted the final version of manuscript for submission.

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The authors received no financial support to produce this manuscript.

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