Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in the symptomatic elderly

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-51

  Riordan, Stephen M ^b   McIver, Christopher J ^a   Wakefield, Denis ^b   Bolin, Terry D ^b   Duncombe, Vic M ^b   Thomas, Mervyn C ^b  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ACHLORHYDRIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ENDOSCOPY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE SECRETION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH PH;

AGED; ANOREXIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVA;

EID: 0031013021     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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