Breath Testing for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: Maximizing Test Accuracy

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1964-1972

  Saad, Richard J ^a   Chey, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucose Hydrogen Breath Test; Hydrogen Breath Test; Lactulose Hydrogen Breath Test; SIBO; Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON 14; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOCHOLIC ACID; HYDROGEN; LACTULOSE; METHANE; SORBITOL; XYLOSE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BLOATING; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GOLD STANDARD; HEPATOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; IRRITABLE COLON; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STANDARDIZATION; STOMACH DISTENSION; BLIND LOOP SYNDROME; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SMALL INTESTINE;

BLIND LOOP SYNDROME; BREATH TESTS; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; INTESTINE, SMALL; LACTULOSE; METHANE;

EID: 84918835015     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: 15427714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.09.055     Document Type: Article

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