Conjunctival microbiome in a trachoma-endemic population
Metagenomic shotgun sequencing was performed on DNA extracted from human conjunctival swab samples collected as part of a study of the ocular surface microbiome in trachoma-endemic communities. Sequencing libraries were prepared using Illumina Nextera XT kits and sequenced as paired-end 150 bp reads on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform. The sequencing was conducted to characterize microbial community composition and enable recovery of pathogen genomic data from host-associated metagenomic samples.