Extended Data Fig. 2: Bacterial loads of longitudinal biopsies.

16S rRNA gene copies were quantified as a proxy for bacterial load for all biopsies. Samples were plotted by participant and then by ___location. (N = 3 biological replicates for each ___location for each participant, LOB refers to limit of blank defined as LoB = meanblank + 1.645[SDblank] based on three processing blanks).