*3.1. Microbial Diversity*

Patient fecal samples obtained at baseline (prior to FMT intervention) and after 4 weeks of intervention were assessed by shotgun metagenomics. The metagenomic sequencing resulted in an average of 4,015,023 reads per sample, with a minimum of 2,280,276 reads and a maximum of 5,818,393 reads. Of these, 0.031235% were, on average, the host reads, leaving a minimum of 2,279,728 quality microbial reads for microbiome characterization with an average of 4,013,907 quality microbial reads per host individual.
