Intestinal microbial diversity of swines fed with different sources of lithium Raw sequence reads

A drug that is widely used in the treatment of psychiatric disorder is the lithium (Li) salts. The people who make the therapeutic use of this drug develop a series of side effects. Through metataxonomic data, we sought to understand whether lithium as Li carbonate or Li-enriched mushrooms could influence the microbial composition of the ileum, colon, and feces of piglets.