ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank Ngik Rem, and Helen Keller International (Cambodia) for managing and supervising study operations; and Chanthan Am, National Institute of Public Health Laboratory (Cambodia) for overseeing sample processing in Phnom Penh. We thank The Factors Group of Nutritional Companies (Burnaby, BC, Canada) for manufacturing the study supplements. We thank André Comeau from the Integrated Microbiome Resource at Dalhousie University for guiding the 16S rRNA gene sequencing.We declare that we have no competing interests.E.F.-T. is supported by the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease in the form of the Canada Medical Student Research Award. J.N. is supported by researchNS and the Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship. C.D.K. is supported by a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award and a Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Micronutrients and Human Health. J.A.J.F. received student funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. E.F.-T., J.A.J.F., D.M.G. and C.D.K. designed the research; J.A.J.F. and H.K. oversaw trial implementation and data collection in Cambodia; E.F.-T. performed DNA extraction and sequencing preparation; J.N. performed the 16S RNA sequencing analysis; Y.M. and S.W. performed the qPCR analyses; E.F.-T., J.A.J.F., and J.N. conducted the statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript; all authors contributed to interpretation of the results; C.D.K. had primary responsibility for content; and all authors contributed to writing and manuscript revision and read and approved the final manuscript.Supplemental material is available online only.
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