Strengths and limitations
celiac disease
CELIAC DISEASE
Our study provides a unique insight into a novel topic in celiac disease research as no study has yet investigated the gut parasitome by molecular techniques. The samples were taken longitudinally, which helps decrease the effects of short-term fluctuations in the abundance of individual microbial taxa [The main limitation is the unavailability of a fresh fecal sample needed for direct morphological assessment by microscopy as only frozen samples were used for DNA extraction. Thus, we do not know what stages of the protist were present and whether morphology relates to the quantity of 