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

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Gastroenterology and In-Patient Hepatology, The Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala 683112, India.
• ² Department of Gastroenterology and Advanced GI Endoscopy, Center of Excellence in GI Sciences, Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala 683112, India.
• ³ Department of Clinical and Translational Hepatology, The Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala 683112, India; Department of Clinical Research, Division of Gut Microbiome and the Liver, Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala 683112, India. Electronic address: abbyphilips@theliverinst.in.