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+Setup
+
+  $ source "$TESTDIR"/_setup.sh
+
+Testing metadata outputs with internal quotes for the curate command.
+Running the `passthru` subcommand since it does not do any data transformations.
+
+Create NDJSON with internal quotes
+
+  $ cat >records.ndjson <<~~
+  > {"strain": "sequence_A", "submitting_lab": "SRC VB \"Vector\", Molecular Biology of Genomes"}
+  > ~~
+
+Test passthru with output to TSV.
+This should not add any quotes around the field with internal quotes.
+
+  $ cat records.ndjson \
+  >   | ${AUGUR} curate passthru \
+  >     --output-metadata output-metadata.tsv
+
+  $ cat output-metadata.tsv
+  strain\tsubmitting_lab (esc)
+  sequence_A\tSRC VB "Vector", Molecular Biology of Genomes (esc)
+
+Run the output TSV through augur curate passthru again.
+The new output should still be identical to the first output.
+
+  $ ${AUGUR} curate passthru \
+  > --metadata output-metadata.tsv \
+  > --output-metadata output-metadata-2.tsv
+
+  $ diff -u output-metadata.tsv output-metadata-2.tsv