Diarrhea is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in young children from developing countries, leading to as many as 15% of all deaths in children under 5 years of age. While many causes of this disease are already known, conventional diagnostic approaches fail to detect a pathogen in up to 60% of diarrheal cases. Gut samples were collected from ~1000 children from Bangladesh, Kenya, Mali and The Gambia. OTU features were filtered (for server speed) to those present in at least 20 samples.
The following is a visualization of microbiome data of young children from low-income countries.
To install the shiny app load up R:
# install.packages("shiny")
library("shiny")
runGitHub("MSD1000", "nosson")For more information please visit: http://cbcb.umd.edu/research/projects/GEMS-pathogen-discovery
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