Table 5. Mean read length and read number per index from output PGM quality-approved, trimmed and filtered sequence data in the four groups of patients.

	Blastocystis sp.-positive		Blastocystis sp.-negative
	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
Mean read number per index*	43,058	44,150.04	41,374.65	41,862.54
Mean read length (bases)*	270	273.96	275.13	271.62

*Three outlier samples (indexes 18, 63 and 50 belonging to groups 1, 2 and 3 respectively), were discarded before the analyses.